poverty refledtion 1,2

My reflection on the first two chapters on of this book follows.

                I would consider myself one of those students. I struggled in school because of it. I find myself comparing myself to the students in the book. The book reminded me where I came from and the advantage I have dealing with those students that have had some of the same problems that I had growing up.  I have been in teachers meeting and thinking to myself these people (the teachers) don’t have a clue about what’s going on. They could not comprehend due to no fault of their own. They had just not experienced those things in their life.

                I know I’m supposed to read this to make myself a better educator, but I’m mostly excited to read this book to help me understand my own problems in school when I was younger. That might make me a better teacher at best a more understanding teacher.

formative assemesment narrative

I had students take a practice Standardized test. We have been working on test taking strategies. The goal was to transfer those strategies to the actual test. The assessment was 12 questions.  1 out of 8 got 0 wrong the rest got two wrong. I had those that missed questions write a brief explanation in why they missed the question and had them correct it. I had each student come up and explain to me what they should to next time and what strategy we should use.

Take away

The biggest take away from this book

This book can go to the extremes.  Some of the fixes would be so hard to implement at present.  It did make me at least think about how I do things in my classes, right or wrong. It does have good ideas that we can use as long as we make them our own.