Archive for the 'Observations' Category

Jan 9 Observations

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Greetings,
As I returned from my Winter Break, it was time to begin my observations of Miss Silverleaf in Peacebloom High School, a suburban/rural school.  I found Miss Silverleaf in an interesting position.  She had been notified that she was to give a standardized test and a take-home essay test for her final exam.  There [...]

Week 2 Observations

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Greetings,

This week, I had a couple of interesting things happen to me which I think should be made a note of.  The first was watching something Miss Silverleaf did, and the other was an event between a student at Peacebloom School and I.
First, on Tuesday, Miss Silverleaf talked with her 2nd hour class (9th [...]

Cooperative learning assessment

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Greetings,
Today was my first serious observation of the Peacebloom High School with Miss Silverleaf. Out of the many things that I took note of, I would like to take notice of an assignment that Miss Silverleaf started in one of her classes.
Essentially she broke the class into two groups of roughly equal sizes, and assigned [...]

Cabin Time day.

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Greetings,
I had my “first” encounter with students today in Peacebloom School*. Yes, I had encounters with students before, thus it really isn’t my “first”, but it was the first time with students from this school, and under the tutelage of Miss Silverleaf*.
Today was a relatively unusual day, as it was “Cabin Time” day. The usual [...]