My Journey through Education

The classroom management style used in my field experience classroom is a school-wide behavior management chart. Each day the students start on the color "green" throughout the day they can either move up or down the chart based on their behavior. If the teacher needs to tell the student to stop what they are doing more than once or twice the student then has to go move their clip down on the chart. When students are listening really well, being super quiet, or doing what they are supposed to without the teacher telling them she will have him move their clip up. Students who receive "pink" get VIP privileges the next day and get the sit at a special table instead of their normal seat. Whichever color the students get is marked in their take-home folder at the end of the day for parents to see. Each color is also worth a certain amount of classroom money that the students can use to do fun activities like watching a movie at the end of the 9 weeks.  STO...

Hey everyone,  I tried something new for this blog is a website called piktochart. I thought it was pretty neat and easy to use!  Heres my link, hope you guys enjoy!  https://create.piktochart.com/output/26044769-motivation-locy

PART 1: Classroom Layout The classroom that I made would be a 1st-grade classroom. I have placed tables and groups of 4 students at each table. I have a semi-circle roundtable for teacher time group work. I have my desk on the opposite side of the room. My classroom has a rug for the morning meeting and group lessons. It has many different options for the students to use during reading such as the bean bag chairs and the corner meeting area. It has a bathroom in the classroom and has multiple places for storage of the children belonging (jacket, bookbag, etc. and another cubie for there works to go into once complete. My classroom will have a smart board and whiteboard in the room. No computers, the students will have laptops to use if they need to. : PART 2: Rules and Procedures Rules for Miss. Locy's Classroom: 1. Listen to others 2. Work together 3. Try your best 4. Raise your hand 5. Keep hands and feet to yourself Procedures: 1. Hav...

Reflect on the DIBELS activity. Which two areas did you choose to practice scoring? How did you do? Was it easy/difficult? Upload pictures of your score sheets. •I think that all of the DIBELS activities were very informative. I think some were harder than others. The two I choose to do were the Oral Reading Fluency and the Retell. I picked these two because they went hand and hand with each other. I never really thought about how students could describe so much about a story by only reading 60 words but when hearing the student do his retell and listen to him only know one thing about the story all I could think of was about all the other details he got and could have talked about in that short period of reading. This really opened my eyes to all the detail in stories that normally we probably don't even think about or pay attention to.      List two benefits of using Curriculum-Based Measurement (e.g., DIBELS) to monitor stu...

Hey Everyone, I decided to do a Prezi for this blog. Hope you guys enjoy! https://prezi.com/view/uG4nlISzMqgyin4o8Vpy/

F.A.T City Video The F.A.T City Video was nothing like I thought it was going to be. When I first saw that we had to watch an hour long lecture I was not too excited about it but after I started the video I didn't want to stop watching it. It was very informative and the way that Dr. Lavoie explained the information way really interesting because he made the people in the lecture participate which usually doesn't happen. One thing I thought that was extremely interesting was the fact that he asked the adults to do things that seemed so simple but in that situation made it harder to show how LD students interpret it. It made me really think about how to ask students questions and how I need to speak slowly and clearly.  3 points in the video: 1. "That whenever you decide to use sarcasm with a student you are creating a victim"- I never realized this, I had many teachers who would use sarcasm and I would think nothing of it but that might not always ...

How did you do on the person-first self-assessment? What was your level of expertise? Is there room for improvement?  On the person-first self assessment I scored a 58 meaning "You're a conscientious user!" When I was taking the assessment and reading some of the questions I was thinking things like "I never really thought there was a different between the two different ways of saying things" It made me think that I really need to think about things that I say before I say them, especially because I don't want to say something that I think is nothing but to someone else could be very hurtful.   Do you prefer person-first or identity-first language? Do you think one is better than the other? I personally prefer identity- first language. It might be because that is how I have always been told to talk about people who have a disability. I'm not saying that one is better than the other I am just more comfortable with IFL because its what I am use to. ...

Hi, all! My name is Danielle. I am a senior at UNCW studying Elementary Education. Even though I am a senior I still have 3 semester left until graduation. This is my 3rd year at UNCW, as I first went to a community college in Kirkland, Ohio before moving to North Carolina and transferring to UNCW.  I live in Sneads Ferry and  have for a little over 2 years now. I moved here to be closer to my sister and at the time just nephews and to help her out since her husband is in the marines and always gone. I am orginally from a VERY small town about an hour east of Cleveland. I spent alot of time in Downtown cleveland going to Indians and Cavs games, and miss being able to go whenever I wanted to ! Aside from being a full time student I work full time also. I work part time as a nanny to two of the sweetest kids, Olivia (5) and Max (1), the other half of the time I work as an office manager for their parents Masonry company and I LOVE both of my jobs. When not working I spend ...