Week 11

This week was another interesting week at Watson. I feel like every week I come upon a different obstacle in my early teaching career. This week, one of our students had a rough stride toward the middle of the week. Earlier in the year, this student showed signs of being very hyper and defiant. Then, for about the last month, he has been an angel. This week he had a rough day on Wednesday and Thursday, and when a call was made home about his behavior we came to find out that he was out of his prescription. When, I wanted to become a teacher, I didn't realize all of the things a teacher may have to deal with during the year. A second grade student who is a complete 180 without medicine. It's amazing some of the things that I will discover throughout my career that I have already seen.

On another note, I kept going on with my action research. The week before this, I did spelling words every day on spelling city, and with the mimio. The students absolutely loved it, and it showed on their test scores, as almost everyone scored a 100%. This week, I got back to the regular saying each word aloud, and just going over all of the words. The students, I feel, are bored by this, but it still keeps up with my action research as I am doing activities with the students. The scores, as I figured would happen, came back down to earth as only the few consistent students that having been scoring very high scores all year scored very well on this test. I plan on implementing technology one more time to see if anything happens with the scores, or if it was just the words of last week that were so easy for my students. Either way, action research is coming to an end, and I am hoping that I can discover something from my data.