Classroom Observation
First Week
When I was doing my teacher assisting at Union High School, most of the time was pended on trying to get the students to do their work. Sometimes the students only came to class to sleep because most of them had a full time job and worked the whole night. Union High is an urban school and most of the students live in a challenging neighborhood. Most of students' parents have two jobs and students have too look up for themselves most of the time. I spend most of my time there telling them to do their work and helping others with directions. Most of the times, the teacher had prepared an awesome lesson plan but unfortunately he could not teach it. Instead he would give them work sheets and I would go around and helping the students with their work, which was waist of time because students had very little interest on learning.
There was also a time, when students could volunteer to share some of their good news. At this time students would spend from 5 minutes to 20 and sometimes half of the class hour talking about themselves. Students were allow to share their stories with every detail, which was what it used to take most of the class time. The teacher point of view was that when students share their stories the rest of the class was on listening mode and that it was good because students would listen better to the teacher when that happen.
My teacher always mention that it would be nice if he could teach all the students on his class at the same time instead of walking around and giving directions to one on one. He also mention that he would like to teach his lesson plans instead of just giving out work sheets. Another thing is that every day most of the students were behind on some of their work because some of them have missed classes. The teachers had to be carefully on the way he was teaching because many students missed class and not all of them had the same knowledge. That was another thing that my teacher always wanted to to, just teach the way he wanted to.
I attended to some of the teachers meetings and on my opinion, they where kinda waist of time. The meeting was about the way how teachers should teach and what they should take into consideration while teaching. Things that are so obvious to teachers. They told teachers, for example; "when students are misbehaving you need to go over classroom expectations" and "when students do not listen you need to write them up and call their parents". Or they would teach teachers on how to become more involved with students another example;" If you see a student not looking the same you need to talk to the an find out what they have". Thins like this are just make since to do them, this is why I think this kind of meeting are waist of time. I do support meeting where teachers need to be inform about new rules, teach a new strategy and other things that teachers need to improved their teaching.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Post # 2
National organization
One of the National organization that I am using is ACTFL. This organization is very helpful because it always bring out the latest on education. Teachers can share ideas and we all can talk as a community. The member ship is not free. My membership total is $49 per year.
The basic membership is $ 29.00, but I decided to add, Film $5.00, Heritage $5.00, SNS $0.00, Teacher $5.00, Culture $5.00. With this membership I get asses to the latest magazines, brochures, books, videos, films, and new ideas on teaching a foreign language. organization offer many helpful information in many different ways. FCTL uses many social medias such as Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTub, TalkRadio, and Facebook. This Social Medias are the most popular for ACTFL. ACTFL, also holds conferences. Yes, they are always having conferences, but they are very expensive. An example; the Convention and World world Language Expo at San Diego Center in San Diego California on October 28, 2015. the cost was $155.
State Level Educators
One of our state level education is Michigan Department of Education. There is no fee for being part of this organization. Michigan Department of Education is a great resource of information for teachers and the schools in general. offers information from the state curriculum to food and nutrients. Also, has information about grants, health, careers and college, news and publication, parent engagement and also library. They offer posters, folders, and brochures but a form needs to be filled first. There is a Library associated with Michigan Department of Education, where we can find many educational information. The organization offers conferences for free, low cost and at charge of 95 dollars per day. All depends what kind of the conference will be provided. As Early child special education most of them are free, and Culture of reading program. What I think was interesting and very helpful is that the organization even provides information about what it takes to become a teacher of any subject.
Here are the social media that the organization uses: Facebook, Twitter, YouTub, and Emails
Post # 3
@learnspanish4lf: Spanish teacher -Olga it seems like she is very active on her profession because there is a lot of information about teaching Spanish. I notice also, that she has a very positive attitude, by posting a lot self help quotes.
https://www.facebook.com/claire.scislowicz Claire Jean is a Spanish teacher who fallows most of teachers that travel and have pictures from all over the world.
https://www.linkedin.com/title/spanish-teacher Maria Arenas Delgado is a Spanish teacher at Duibai International Academy. She follows most of people that are interested on politics.
@bellaale Allex Bellars is a Physical Educational Teacher and likes to have close contact and follows other people that are interested on sports, languages and also teachers with the same profession as him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LPYyiFUHDE Sonia Master is one of the co-founder of Barbara Spanish School residence.
@Laura_Faby Laura Venezuela is a Spanish teacher in a high school in Los Angeles County, California. She likes to fallow many resources about Hispanic culture, bands and music.
@edwardstanko Edward Stanko is a Spanish teacher in San Diego California and likes to fallow people that are interested on politics, sports and the same profession as he.
@mrsmaudlin Senora Maudlin is a spanish teacher at Akins High School and fallows lot of people with the same field including, people that are artistic and culture.
https://www.pinterest.com/srabertram/games-and-activities-for-spanish-class/
Pinterest board is a website where teachers get to share their ideas and games on Spanish lessons and teachers get to benefit from them.
@SraClouser Barbara Clouser is a Spanish teacher at Hershey, PA. She is very interested on the 21st century learning
@spanish4teacher Emilia Carrillo is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish speaking social media.
@mariafernandez Maria Fernandez is a Spanish teachers who follows Spanish teachers around the world. She is also interested on the politics
@senoraCMT Carrie Toth is a spanish teacher who follows people with same profession as hers she is also interested on world with news
@sraspanglish Laura sexton is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spoanish educators and looks like she is interested on latino/hispanic culture.
@snesbitt1972 is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish organizations and also is interested on sports.
@BurlingameTerry is a Spanish teacher who follows Sspanish teachers and is interested on politics and news.
@RonieWebster is a Spanish teachers who follows spanish teachers and also is interested on new and many different kind of podcasts
@placido Kristy Placido is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spanish teachers and also follows traveling organizations
@sonrisadelcampo Cynthia Hitz is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish teachers and organizations and also likes to follow sports
@sradana_cemes Sra Dana is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish teachers and she is interested on coffee and teas
@Sstaberry Christina Toro is a Spanish teacher who follows spanish educators and Spanish podcasts
@karacjacobs Kara Jocobs is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish educators and mexican celebrities
@LangcerSpanish is a Spanish teachers who follows also Spanish teachers and people with many different professions as his.
@mrsmaudlin Senora Maudlin is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spanish teachers and and is interested in traveling, and art.
Screenshots
Post # 4
http://kimcofino.com/blog/
Kim Cofino is a English and a ELL teacher. Her blog demonstrates that she is very active with what she does. It is all about learning and always finding ways to learn more by personal experience.
http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com.es/
Synthia Hitz is a Spanish teacher who is very active on the profession. She has many resources for other teachers on her blog, and ideas about the hispanic culture
Kara Jocob is a Spanish teachers. on her blog she has many information about the activities she does in her spanish class. She also shares videos that she uses with her students.
http://kplacido.com/
Kristy Placido shares many of her techniques she uses with her students. she uses videos and songs to get students engaged on the language.
http://blog.heartsforteaching.com/
Laurie Clarcq shares work form her students and ideas that she uses in class. she also comments on the students work.
http://www.lesliedavison.com/lesliedavison/blog/
Leslie Davison she also shares ideas, about teaching spanish. Her blog contains many pictures and videos that she has used during her teaching experiences
http://optimizingimmersion.com/
Mike Coxon is a spanish educator who shares some of his ideas and gives a lot of resources for other teachers. His blog is filled with articles and work that he does with his class
http://profesoranonimo.blogspot.com/
Señor Jordan is a Spanish teachers, he has a lot of useful information for Spanish teachers. He has educational resources that contains games, stories, and other fun activities for students
https://senorabas.wordpress.com/
Erin Bas has many stories and videos on his blog. He has share what he has done with students in his classroom.
http://martinabex.com/
Martina Bex is a Spanish teacher who has her blog fill with lot different resources to help teaches. She also has lot of articles on how to improve teaching and help students to have a better understanding
Post # 5
How I would use a blog tool to on my future classroom? Well, I do not have any experiences on using technology, but I think this tool is very helpful. At the beginning when I was asked to open a blog account I had no idea how was going to work. Now that I have being following the instructions of my technology professor is becoming fun and helpful. Now I am curious what is coming next. To be onest, on my future class I will use a blog with my students too. It would be very helpful to communicate, share work, answers, videos, also I could share other information about our lessons activities. First I would have to guide the students on how to open a blog if they do not know yet, than basically do same thing that I am doing with my technology teacher. It is awesome that I can share videos right from you-tub if I want them to watch an specific video. I also can create a schedule for everyone can stay on track of everything. The most important for the use of a blog is to share work, answer questions, students get to comment on posts freely with out feeling shy, and also I can post students fun activities for them to share with their families. all this info will be locked; teacher and students can get accesses to it only.
National organization
One of the National organization that I am using is ACTFL. This organization is very helpful because it always bring out the latest on education. Teachers can share ideas and we all can talk as a community. The member ship is not free. My membership total is $49 per year.
The basic membership is $ 29.00, but I decided to add, Film $5.00, Heritage $5.00, SNS $0.00, Teacher $5.00, Culture $5.00. With this membership I get asses to the latest magazines, brochures, books, videos, films, and new ideas on teaching a foreign language. organization offer many helpful information in many different ways. FCTL uses many social medias such as Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTub, TalkRadio, and Facebook. This Social Medias are the most popular for ACTFL. ACTFL, also holds conferences. Yes, they are always having conferences, but they are very expensive. An example; the Convention and World world Language Expo at San Diego Center in San Diego California on October 28, 2015. the cost was $155.
State Level Educators
One of our state level education is Michigan Department of Education. There is no fee for being part of this organization. Michigan Department of Education is a great resource of information for teachers and the schools in general. offers information from the state curriculum to food and nutrients. Also, has information about grants, health, careers and college, news and publication, parent engagement and also library. They offer posters, folders, and brochures but a form needs to be filled first. There is a Library associated with Michigan Department of Education, where we can find many educational information. The organization offers conferences for free, low cost and at charge of 95 dollars per day. All depends what kind of the conference will be provided. As Early child special education most of them are free, and Culture of reading program. What I think was interesting and very helpful is that the organization even provides information about what it takes to become a teacher of any subject.
Here are the social media that the organization uses: Facebook, Twitter, YouTub, and Emails
Post # 3
@learnspanish4lf: Spanish teacher -Olga it seems like she is very active on her profession because there is a lot of information about teaching Spanish. I notice also, that she has a very positive attitude, by posting a lot self help quotes.
https://www.facebook.com/claire.scislowicz Claire Jean is a Spanish teacher who fallows most of teachers that travel and have pictures from all over the world.
https://www.linkedin.com/title/spanish-teacher Maria Arenas Delgado is a Spanish teacher at Duibai International Academy. She follows most of people that are interested on politics.
@bellaale Allex Bellars is a Physical Educational Teacher and likes to have close contact and follows other people that are interested on sports, languages and also teachers with the same profession as him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LPYyiFUHDE Sonia Master is one of the co-founder of Barbara Spanish School residence.
@Laura_Faby Laura Venezuela is a Spanish teacher in a high school in Los Angeles County, California. She likes to fallow many resources about Hispanic culture, bands and music.
@edwardstanko Edward Stanko is a Spanish teacher in San Diego California and likes to fallow people that are interested on politics, sports and the same profession as he.
@mrsmaudlin Senora Maudlin is a spanish teacher at Akins High School and fallows lot of people with the same field including, people that are artistic and culture.
https://www.pinterest.com/srabertram/games-and-activities-for-spanish-class/
Pinterest board is a website where teachers get to share their ideas and games on Spanish lessons and teachers get to benefit from them.
@SraClouser Barbara Clouser is a Spanish teacher at Hershey, PA. She is very interested on the 21st century learning
@spanish4teacher Emilia Carrillo is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish speaking social media.
@mariafernandez Maria Fernandez is a Spanish teachers who follows Spanish teachers around the world. She is also interested on the politics
@senoraCMT Carrie Toth is a spanish teacher who follows people with same profession as hers she is also interested on world with news
@sraspanglish Laura sexton is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spoanish educators and looks like she is interested on latino/hispanic culture.
@snesbitt1972 is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish organizations and also is interested on sports.
@BurlingameTerry is a Spanish teacher who follows Sspanish teachers and is interested on politics and news.
@RonieWebster is a Spanish teachers who follows spanish teachers and also is interested on new and many different kind of podcasts
@placido Kristy Placido is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spanish teachers and also follows traveling organizations
@sonrisadelcampo Cynthia Hitz is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish teachers and organizations and also likes to follow sports
@sradana_cemes Sra Dana is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish teachers and she is interested on coffee and teas
@Sstaberry Christina Toro is a Spanish teacher who follows spanish educators and Spanish podcasts
@karacjacobs Kara Jocobs is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish educators and mexican celebrities
@LangcerSpanish is a Spanish teachers who follows also Spanish teachers and people with many different professions as his.
@mrsmaudlin Senora Maudlin is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spanish teachers and and is interested in traveling, and art.
Screenshots
http://kimcofino.com/blog/
Kim Cofino is a English and a ELL teacher. Her blog demonstrates that she is very active with what she does. It is all about learning and always finding ways to learn more by personal experience.
http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com.es/
Synthia Hitz is a Spanish teacher who is very active on the profession. She has many resources for other teachers on her blog, and ideas about the hispanic culture
http://reflecciones-kj.blogspot.com/
Kara Jocob is a Spanish teachers. on her blog she has many information about the activities she does in her spanish class. She also shares videos that she uses with her students.
http://kplacido.com/
Kristy Placido shares many of her techniques she uses with her students. she uses videos and songs to get students engaged on the language.
http://blog.heartsforteaching.com/
Laurie Clarcq shares work form her students and ideas that she uses in class. she also comments on the students work.
http://www.lesliedavison.com/lesliedavison/blog/
Leslie Davison she also shares ideas, about teaching spanish. Her blog contains many pictures and videos that she has used during her teaching experiences
http://optimizingimmersion.com/
Mike Coxon is a spanish educator who shares some of his ideas and gives a lot of resources for other teachers. His blog is filled with articles and work that he does with his class
http://profesoranonimo.blogspot.com/
Señor Jordan is a Spanish teachers, he has a lot of useful information for Spanish teachers. He has educational resources that contains games, stories, and other fun activities for students
https://senorabas.wordpress.com/
Erin Bas has many stories and videos on his blog. He has share what he has done with students in his classroom.
http://martinabex.com/
Martina Bex is a Spanish teacher who has her blog fill with lot different resources to help teaches. She also has lot of articles on how to improve teaching and help students to have a better understanding
Post # 5
How I would use a blog tool to on my future classroom? Well, I do not have any experiences on using technology, but I think this tool is very helpful. At the beginning when I was asked to open a blog account I had no idea how was going to work. Now that I have being following the instructions of my technology professor is becoming fun and helpful. Now I am curious what is coming next. To be onest, on my future class I will use a blog with my students too. It would be very helpful to communicate, share work, answers, videos, also I could share other information about our lessons activities. First I would have to guide the students on how to open a blog if they do not know yet, than basically do same thing that I am doing with my technology teacher. It is awesome that I can share videos right from you-tub if I want them to watch an specific video. I also can create a schedule for everyone can stay on track of everything. The most important for the use of a blog is to share work, answer questions, students get to comment on posts freely with out feeling shy, and also I can post students fun activities for them to share with their families. all this info will be locked; teacher and students can get accesses to it only.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Post #1
About Me
Helo, My name is Josefina Guillen Nunez. I am originally from Guanajuato, Mexico, but I have been living here for 10 years. Guanajuato is a famous state because of Las Momias. When I got here to the United States, I did not know not eve one word in English. I have been working very hard to to learn the language. My parents are still in Mexico and a sister and the rest of my brothers are here. I have nine brothers total including me. When I arrived here I wanted to go to college to finish a profession but It was difficult because of the language. I started going to college to become an elementary school teacher, but then I decided to become a Spanish teacher. I think teaching Spanish in high school is very fun. My degree is on Spanish in Education and my minor is on Psychology.
My Hobbies
On my time off I like to work out at the gym and on Saturdays I love to go and dance with my husband at a night clubs. when I meet my husband he did not know how to dance at all so we decided to take some dancing lesson together. We took at least 20 lessons and now we really enjoy out time dancing; well, we are not professionals but we have lot of fun. Also, I like to watch Telenovelas at home, and read interesting articles on line.
Technology at Work
My experience on using technology at work it can my my teaching very helpful, successful, but also can be such of pain when something goes wrong and I have no idea on how to fix the problem. An example, on Friday 15 I had plan to watch a video with the students learn about the subject that I was going to teach. Unfortunately, the Elmo was not working so i could not show the video. I had to think about something else to teach on that such of short time. I have become to the conclusion that I always have to be prepare with lessons plans just an case technology fails.
This photo is from Moroleon, Guanajuato. Here I spend lot of time with some of my friends when I was living in Mexico. There are so many memories in there.
My School
I did my Teachers Assisting with Grand Rapids Public Schools at Union High and now I am long term subbing at Westwood Middle School
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