Jennifer Lynch
1/27/2016
David Paige Reflection
I am glad that Mr. Paige talked to us after we had the two semesters of reading methods courses. Doctor Singleton did a great job teaching us about how the five components of reading work together to help a child comprehend what they read. She also did a good job teaching us about reading assessments. For her class, we had to lead a week-long intervention for one student, complete with entry and exit running records, and then we had to write a case study justifying which intervention methods we used and which ones should follow the intervention. This experience created great prior knowledge for Mr. Paige to activate.
I liked the story about how the people of India need to learn how to collaborate and to problem solve. The woman was very smart because she brought the think-pair-share idea to her school. I take so many parts of my education for granted, I am lucky that my teachers had us collaborate and to think critically about so many of the activities and lessons that we took part in. It was interesting to hear Mr. Paige speak about how everyone in the room had caught on to how the game of education works, so we need to think about how what worked for us might not work for others. He said that students in honors classes do not tend to hang out with students with learning disabilities. This made me reflect on my own experiences. Two of my best friends have learning disabilities, which I do not think were catered to enough. Most of the people that I hung out with in high school were low achievers in the academic world. I took college preparatory and honors classes, but I thought that many of my classmates were stuck up and did not offer as much as my friends who were not excelling in school. It was certainly awkward not having any classes with my best friends, and later it felt even more weird to see my friends beginning their lives as I headed off to college. I’ve always known that my friendship with these people was an enigma. I liked how Mr. Paige tied in how a school is a community/family. I have always embraced the idea that everyone owns every student. I think that if teachers work together instead of competing with each other, the students will benefit so much more. I really like that my cohort naturally set itself up as a professional learning community, because it will help me to jump into a professional learning community when I get employed at a school.
I loved that Mr. Paige brought extensive evidence with him. He did a good job incorporating rigor into his examples. The fact that he was able to begin to transform a school system gives me hope that I can transform my classroom if needed. I will use the chart of how students learn how to read when I work with struggling readers in my class. I really appreciate how much detail is in that chart.
I am very glad that Mr. Paige came to visit us. I have used Good Reads and Pinterest to hold books and links that he referenced so his information can still be available to me later, when I will need to revisit it. My host teacher is using the Word Journeys book for our struggling readers and she creates word sorts based on our spelling words for the rest of the students.
1/27/2016
David Paige Reflection
I am glad that Mr. Paige talked to us after we had the two semesters of reading methods courses. Doctor Singleton did a great job teaching us about how the five components of reading work together to help a child comprehend what they read. She also did a good job teaching us about reading assessments. For her class, we had to lead a week-long intervention for one student, complete with entry and exit running records, and then we had to write a case study justifying which intervention methods we used and which ones should follow the intervention. This experience created great prior knowledge for Mr. Paige to activate.
I liked the story about how the people of India need to learn how to collaborate and to problem solve. The woman was very smart because she brought the think-pair-share idea to her school. I take so many parts of my education for granted, I am lucky that my teachers had us collaborate and to think critically about so many of the activities and lessons that we took part in. It was interesting to hear Mr. Paige speak about how everyone in the room had caught on to how the game of education works, so we need to think about how what worked for us might not work for others. He said that students in honors classes do not tend to hang out with students with learning disabilities. This made me reflect on my own experiences. Two of my best friends have learning disabilities, which I do not think were catered to enough. Most of the people that I hung out with in high school were low achievers in the academic world. I took college preparatory and honors classes, but I thought that many of my classmates were stuck up and did not offer as much as my friends who were not excelling in school. It was certainly awkward not having any classes with my best friends, and later it felt even more weird to see my friends beginning their lives as I headed off to college. I’ve always known that my friendship with these people was an enigma. I liked how Mr. Paige tied in how a school is a community/family. I have always embraced the idea that everyone owns every student. I think that if teachers work together instead of competing with each other, the students will benefit so much more. I really like that my cohort naturally set itself up as a professional learning community, because it will help me to jump into a professional learning community when I get employed at a school.
I loved that Mr. Paige brought extensive evidence with him. He did a good job incorporating rigor into his examples. The fact that he was able to begin to transform a school system gives me hope that I can transform my classroom if needed. I will use the chart of how students learn how to read when I work with struggling readers in my class. I really appreciate how much detail is in that chart.
I am very glad that Mr. Paige came to visit us. I have used Good Reads and Pinterest to hold books and links that he referenced so his information can still be available to me later, when I will need to revisit it. My host teacher is using the Word Journeys book for our struggling readers and she creates word sorts based on our spelling words for the rest of the students.
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