Extra Post: March

The kids made Abraham Lincoln out of construction paper and they also read books about him. 

As an activity the kids were told to make an "Olaf" out of marshmallows, candy, and pretzels sticks.

I mostly helped them with the eyes, the nose, and sticking the body together. 

Blog 18: Third Answer

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:

• EQ: What is the best resource a special ed team can provide high function children in elementary school to promote academic success?
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
• The relationship between the teacher and the parents of the child should be positive and effective to the student's learning.
• 3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)
• "The manner in which schools communicate and interact with parents affects the extent and quality of parents' home involvement with their children's learning. For example, schools that communicate bad news about student performance more often than recognizing students' excellence will discourage parent involvement by making parents feel they cannot effectively help their children."
• There are a lot of benefits of good parental involvement in their children's education, by getting ideas of how to help and support their children. (Such as learning about new programs the school has to offer.
• "There are other advantages for children when parents become involved — namely, increased motivation for learning, improved behavior, more regular attendance, and a more positive attitude about homework and school in general."
• The research source (s) to support your details and answer
• Interview 1

• Building Parent-Teacher Relationships

  By: American Federation of Teachers (2007)

• Concluding Sentence:
• A student should be able to go to school with a positive mentality and be able to get encouragement from their parents and the school.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

Contents:

1. What is the best resource a special ed team can provide high function autistic children in elementary school to promote academic success?

2. In what ways do you communicate with your student(s)?

3. How do you teach social rules/skills?

4. How do you define your teaching style?

5. How do you use technology in the classroom?

6. What would the routine of the class be on a regular basis?

7. What are the qualities to be a good teacher?

8. Have you ever been in a situation where a student has gotten too out of hand, if so what was the situation the student was in and how did you fix the problem?

9. What are actions/words you should not use while teaching an autistic student? 

10. What is the most significant way to grab a students attention?

11. What are your views on IEP Goals, are they effective?

12. What are examples of IEP Goals that have definitely not worked?

13. In this school who usually meets up for IEP meetings?

14. What are the roles of the different adults who also work in the room?

15. How are the adults/helpers certified in order to work in the classroom with the children?

16. What are some outside school activities or programs that are offered for the students?

17. What are the most effective ways to teach vocabulary to highly autistic students?

18. How do you know when a student is ready to pass to the next grade level?

19.  For you as a teacher, are there improvements you would want to make in the classroom during your years in teaching?

20. Has parent involvement ever been difficult (lack or too much)?

Extra Blog Post: February

The kids brought cereal boxes from home to make a Valentine's Day box to put their valentines cards inside them.

 

 

 

They counted candy hearts by their color (blue, green, yellow, pink, etc.) and made a graph

They measured the size of their boxes using paper clips.

Working on the worksheet.

Measuring their boxes with big candy hearts.

Counting his candy hearts.

Working on their graph.

Working on bar graph.

Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and the objectives for Purther's textbook work for answer 2 post:

EQ:
- What is the best resource a special education team can provide high function autistic children in elementary school to promote academic success?

Answer #2 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*:
- Provide structured programs that will help the students in helping them with consistency.

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example):
- Community activities that will help the student experience real life situations that are not usually presented to them.
- An example of a minor program would be a program for brushing teeth. Students take home a step-by-step process for brushing their teeth. Since brushing teeth is a daily routine, this will help them with consistency.
- Reading programs are important for children, especially those with autism. A program with reading will help students with their vocabulary. (Since some autistic children have limited vocabulary, this would count as one of the most important programs)

The research source (s) to support your details and answer:
- ELIJAH School
- CafeMom
- Yadira Rivera

Concluding Sentence:
- Schools that will provide programs to children with needs will help with the child's consistency academically.

*Write your answer like you would write a thesis statement.  Please don't give us one or two words or start your sentence with by.
  

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Content:

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

- I plan to go volunteer/observe what they do at Casa Colina, where there is a department for autistic children. I will also be going to different classes at an elementary school and get more information on how they teach the autistic students and what rubrics/grading/rules/... they use in the classroom.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

- Taking pictures of the work the kids do in class, and also of the activities they do inside/outside.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

- With this I will be able to actually see how lesson plans are made and how tests/quizzes are done. Also, I will be able to see which students are the ones that need the most help in learning.

4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Content:

• LITERAL
• (a) "I, Kimberly Gallardo, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work."
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• Valeria.DeLaPena@pomona.k12.ca.us (Ms. De La Pena)
• Developing minds (site)
• The Autism Helper (Sasha; blogger)
• ʺIEP/Treatment Plan Objective Ideas" article
• (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of 30 hours). Post it next to your mentorship log.
• (d) Explanation of what you completed
• During the 30 hours I've done a lot of the paper work the teacher would usually do and organizing the paper work. Recently I'm doing more than just that. For example, for Valentines Day each student brought to school a cereal box for their 'Valentine's Mail', and I had to wrap up the boxes in gift wrapping paper that was red, decorated with white polka dots with their name tag on top of the box. Also, I'm helping students with their writing when they need to write a paragraph about someone or something. 

• INTERPRETIVE
• Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. *Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of 30 hours of work.

Putting up classwork on the walls.

Helping students in their writing.

 

 Checking vocabulary and grammar errors. For example, writing about Martin Luther King Jr. since it was MLK day and writing about his history.

 After they wrote about MLK, they created him by using construction paper and crayons.

 

 

• APPLIED
• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.
• It helped me understand that, first of all being a first grade teacher can be stressful on the paperwork, but it really comes a long ways. Also, there are a couple of students in class who don't really know how to write and so I am working on helping the students understand how to write. For example if a student does not know how to spell out a word, let's say "with", and they had originally written "wit" on their paper, then all I could say to them is to sound it out since saying to sound out the word is better than telling them how to spell it, it wouldn't really help  if I had done that.