Week 5 Sept. 19th - 23rd

Reflect on any team teaching you have participated in.

  At South Harrison Middle School, they implement a reading program to improve students' westest scores. The way that the schedule works is second period every sixth grade teacher has a reading class. Mrs. Southern has the inclusion reading class, while Mrs. Barr has the higher level reading class. Then when the students switch to third period that inclusion class goes to Mrs. Barr for English. Luckily this has worked out so that we can do the entire program through two classes. The program begins in Mrs. Southern's reading class and ends in Mrs. Barr's English class. During second period I go to Mrs. Southern's room along with the Special Education teacher to participate in a whole group session for 20 minutes and then we split into small groups (ten students in each group). In my group we read stories and do writing assignments for now, until the Reading 180 program for the computers is fixed and working. For Mrs. Barr's group, they read silently from the Reading 180 book selection (which has different levels for different readers) and finally Mrs. Felder's small group participates in discussion and writing assignments.
This has been a wonderful experience to work with all these teachers as well as being able to implement the program (Read 180) as a whole, which they've never been able to do before due to time constrictions.