I have my first quiz in Oceanography tomorrow and I’m surprisingly excited. The quiz only covers the first chapter in the book and will be on the chapter and lecture notes but the reason I am excited is not because I have the information down. I am excited because it will be my first quiz in almost 5 years that wont be open notes, or online. It is a sign that I am back in school and this makes it more real than physically being there somehow. Wish me luck on this and all my other quizzes, exams, and Finals I will have this semester.
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Starting August 24th I will be going back to school to pursue a Bachelors in education with the goal of becoming an elementary school teacher. I have taught preschool for nearly 10 years and it’s time I went back to school and finish what I started. After aquiring that job I became content, don’t miss understand me, it was a great job and I loved working with those children. Being a preschool teacher with not even an AA under his belt was not something I should settle for. I desided to go back to school to get my AA and transfer to a university. I hope I can achieve my goals and with the help from my family and encouragement from my friends I am going to do just that. Wish me luck on this first semester back with 2 child development classes, one oceanography, and one Nutrition class which will all allow me my AA. Thank you.
The Desired Results Developmental Profile is an assessment tool used to track the progress of students by LAUP. It’s a way so see where progress is being made and I can only assume it’s super to track which teaching styles produce the best results while at the same time tracking the quality of the school. While filling these out however, I can’t help but notice that these are based on recorded observations which to make changes the nature of the child you may be observing. There are children one can observe in the classroom that speak with their peers and seem to play well and communicate with them but if that child is shy towards teachers it can make those observations difficult.
While I was filling these out I came across a few examples of this which can make filling out the forms challenging. This is not to say that as a teacher I don’t know my students, just that any form of observation is difficult.
If you have to fill out these for your own students next yearI suggest that you not just familiarize yourself with the tool as one should, but that you fill one out using a weeks worth of observation of one of your new students. This will help you know what you are able to naturally observe and remember and help you come up with activities which will target these areas and help record the results the best.
Each classroom is different and you need to recognize your strengths and weaknesses to help make it the best possible learning environment for your kids. If you are going to use this tracking tool for the first time or you are experienced with it I recommend a refresher and thinking which activities allowed you to record the your students progress the best for when you have to take the time to fill these out.