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Thursday, November 18, 2010

A Teacher's Job

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts
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Today's session was awesome...I actually accomplished what I had planned to do with my student. This is great, because it means that I'm either getting better at giving tests, or my student has gotten my assessment routine down pat, or as Mar pointed out earlier, could it be because he knew all those goodies were waiting to be munched on during breaktime? At any rate, I now have a pretty good feeling where he's at as far as instructional level in reading. I just need to assess him a little bit more, and then, I'll be on my way to starting my diagnostic case report.
I want to end this posting by wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and to let you know how much I value your friendship and support. May God Bless you all!
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MAGECal Support!


We're half way there and I don't how I could've done this without all your support! It's been such an experience thus far, I look forward to writing my diagnostic case report, as I'm sure all of you are! I just want to wish everyone a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! Like what my post says: I Thank my God upon every rememberance of you. -Philippians 1:3
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The End...or is it?

While we've all for the most part finished gathering our data, we still have the huge task ahead of writing up our Diagnostic Case Reports.  It's the end, but it's not!  I'm confident that we've all accomplished all that we've needed to, even despite the curveballs thrown our way.

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I'm glad that I can finally pin down the Reading Levels of my student.  Now I'm in a better place to devise my plan of attack for next semester.  It's exciting as I envision what the next year holds for us.  I know it's going to inspire us more as we see our harvest growing before our eyes.  The rewards will surely be there, that reason why we teach.  We're seeing glimmers of it now, but get ready for explosions of knowledge!

I want to share Baba Dioum's quote, "In the end we will conserve only what we love.  We will love only what we understand.  We will understand only what we are taught"  (http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/the_end/).  How great is it for the students that they have such caring and wonderful teachers in you that are expanding their horizons of understanding and, in doing so, are expanding their capacity to love!  Love you all, Team MAGEC!
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With each step we take...


"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently." - William Arthur Ward.


This final session has given me an idea of Kayara's strengths and weaknesses in regards to phoneme awareness and phonics. The Reading Success Network assessment book I used today has helped me to recognize where I need to begin as far as strategies for next semester. Once she becomes more fluent in areas such as consonant blends and short vowels, it will help her with her reading fluency. All the sessions we have had for this semester was a great learning experience. I have a better understanding of the hard work and documentation that reading specialists need to do. The final product for this course is taking everything we assessed and compiling it into a diagnostic report. It will give us the chance to brush up on our writing skills that we have acquired from our undergraduate courses. Good luck to us all.
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ED643 Diagnostic Case Report Criteria and Happy Thanksgiving!





If you can read this, thank a teacher.
~ Anonymous Teacher ~



Dear ED643 Students,

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm sure that your students are grateful for all that you've done for them. As you continue to work closely with them with the various reading sessions (especially during next semester), they will READ with a more positive disposition. Keep up the instrumental work, and don't forget that you must include the following in your diagnostic case report before it can be approved:

1. For the interview with the child, it is not enough to list the child’s responses. You must also analyze the responses to describe what the data reveal about the child’s perceptions of him/herself as a reader and writer.

2. Determine the independent, instructional, and frustration levels on graded word lists, oral reading of narrative and expository, silent reading of oral and expository, as well as listening comprehension.

3. Compare these levels and analyze the data to describe the child as a reader in the conclusion of the report. Ensure that you also summarize the child as a writer in the conclusion. List and describe the recommended strategies for both reading and writing.

4. Provide an analysis of the miscues that the students made on the graded word lists and the passages. Read the section in the QRI-4 on how to analyze the miscues.

Do your best to include the aforementioned, so that you can prepare a quality Diagnostic Case Report to share with the parents. Good luck!

Best regards,
Dr. Rivera


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Finally, some clarity.



Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. - Esa Pekka Salonen

Today was good, I was able to determine, with clarity, with separate layers, my student's independent level. He ran roughshod over the level three readings. I'm going to test him incessantly on the level four to see if he can hit instructional, but we'll see, I'm not sure where to put him if he test at frustrational at both levels five and six. Regardless, I was excited that he read the Shortcuts this week, and hopefully found that he can recall information that he reads when prompted. I also had him choose which type of reading to do today, the expository or narrative, and he chose the narrative, so for fun reading, over the break, I'm going to try and find some good fourth grade narrative books and stories I can have him read at the beginning of the semester, and some fifth grade books for him to read toward the end. I might look for boxing since he mentioned he likes PXC fighting. We'll see what I can rustle up while I'm in the states. Anyway, it was nice to get a little more clarity on that as well. That's all for now.

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Thursday, November 4, 2010



The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet

(Aristotle)


We're nearing the end of our assessment sessions with our students and I'm feeling very insecure right now, maybe because try as I may, I know that I haven't conducted nearly enough tests to properly diagnose him. I'm pretty sure I know where his functional and independent levels are at, but without the right amount and types of assessments, I wouldn't be doing him justice by second-guessing his reading levels. So, with his parent's permission, I'll be conducting more everyday after school, starting next week.
Our situation is not due to a lack of willingness to cooperate, but rather on the contrary. He's gets really excited and motivated to start our sessions; it's just that he's a slow reader and tends to get distracted and lose his concentration on the task at hand. And, because of the way that he is, his attention span is rather short. It'll be interesting to see what happens with him next semester, and how far he'll be able to progress. I have no doubt that he'll eventually make progress in the development of his literacy skills, but how much progress remains to be seen.


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