Visit #7

Today started off like any other. Signing in at the office, greeting my supervising teachers and the special needs student and looking over the schedule of what was on for today. I started off working with a year 10 life skill student who is studying at a year 3 level. She suffers with anxiety and depression and so for her to come and work with me was really good of her. Unfortunaly today was not one of her best days as she started to feel overwhelmed in an one-on-one session and so she went back to class for the period. As she went back to class, I had spent the rest of the lesson with the special needs student, working with her spelling and sounds of letters. She got distracted quite easily and would try to get out of work wherever she could, although you had to be a bit firm with her but she understood that she needed to do her work or if she wasn’t going to do her work then she would need to sit quietly and not disturb the other student in the learning support room, who was doing their MULTILit with the other ACU student.

For the next period, I went to the year 5 class that I normally go to and spent the lesson observing the grammar lesson as well as marking and doing some data entry. This lesson they had their original teacher back and so I feel like most of the students were happier with that as that is who they are used to and who knows where each of the students were at and the level they also worked at. Today was also a special day as two of the students in the class had birthday’s today! Each of them brought cake and cupcakes and stood in front of the class explain what their families do to celebrate birthdays as well as get sung to and blowing out the candles on the cake. All the students in the class got a slice of cake and a cupcake and went out to enjoy their recess. The next period we went to the library with the other year 5 class and a year 6 class to watch a reading of the book The Cow Tripped Over The Moon. After the reading the cohort had a group discussion about the book and about goals, friendship and how they link together. Group discussions are really good as everyone can share ideas and learn off each other. After the small amount of time in the library, we went back to the classroom to start on the math lesson. As they were starting a new topic today, I did not take the advance group outside and so I continues to mark some religion tests that the students had completed earlier on in the week.

After this period, I took my students out of class to work through the MULTILit program. Again, this part of my day was just like all the other weeks as this is the one thing in my visits that does not change, no matter what is on that day.