Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1, 2016
Choose an area to focus on during your practicum that connects to your work
this term. What questions emerge from this area of focus? ( e.g. How can I.?
How can I increase my students in K/1 class a strong reading stamina?
2.
What actions can you take with your learners during this two week
teaching/learning experience?
I will
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*After practicum you will have an opportunity to share your experiences with your
POD during your inquiry presentation (March 1). The following question may guide
you through this process. Please respond on this form and submit to Dropbox no
later than March 8th.
What was your question, evidence gathered, and learning from your action research?
What do you still need to know (next steps)?
My question for the action plan was How can I increase my students in K/1 class a
strong reading stamina? During the observation days in my K/1 class, I noticed that kids
were able to get settled in proficiently. However during the Quiet Reading time which
follows right after they get settled in, some kids were not able to read without
distractions.
I started off with asking questions to my students with what they need to do during
Read to Self. Then, I showed the Read to Self chart and explained what each point
meant. We as a class set our reading time goal and I asked couple of students to show
the class what it looks after going through the Read to Self guideline.
Everyday for two weeks, I reminded them with the rules and set our goals before I
sent them off to do their reading.
From time to time I had to give a little nudge to the class to quiet them down, I was
able to see the progress in the behavior during read to self. The purple bar on the graph
represents that the class read for whole 14 minutes. Despite the fact that some kids
started talking to others reaching into 10-12 minutes, there were some kids who were
still reading following the rules. Although not everyone read for 14 minutes, I wanted to
admire those who read for the whole time.
On my last day of two week practicum, my sponsor teacher wanted to keep the
chart and use it which showed me a good sign that my action plan was helping them in
reading and keeping them reminded with the rules everyday before they began the
reading.
What I would like to know next is
- I would like to know if each student can have their own good fit book bag
that they can keep at school and use it when its read to self or read with
someone.
- I would like to know if kids are actually reading books or just pretending to be
reading.
- I would like to know what tools are available at school for me to use to make
this plan more efficient. i.e.) My sponsor teacher did not have a timer in the
classroom.