Practicum Groups

On Tuesday in my Practicum class, we still had the four learning centers.  A writing center, where the students had to complete a worksheet about subjects and predicates (which was taught in a minilesson beforehand), a word study station where they had to sort, alphabetize, and write down their vocab words, a reading station where they had to read “Eye of the Storm,” and a discussion section with the teacher.  Before the centers started, my teacher did a minilesson on sujects and predicates.  She wrote sentences on the board, going from easier to harder.  She had student come up and circle the complete subject and highlight the complete predicate.  The sentences got harder as they got longer, and students had to realize that the complete subject goes all the way and stops before the verb.  Then they broke up into their groups and I walked around, observing the students and answering questions and helping out where I could.

On Thursday, the students read in a group with the teacher, part of “Eye of the Storm.”  The teacher would read a paragraph to demonstrate how to appropriately read and then called on a volunteer to read the next paragraph.  After reading part of the story, they split up into different groups, three groups going to the teacher, the special ed teacher, and me for reading the rest of the book up to the journal entries.  I did the same kind of reading with the students and made sure they were following along.  After I finished with that group I got the last group and we read.  If they were done with the reading group, they had to work on assignments, like vocabulary.  This was my first time in the class leading a group. I hope to do it more often.

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