I feel very neglectful of this blogging effort! Is it too late to make a New Year's resolution? ;)
Tomorrow will mark the end of my third week as a 'real' teacher, and boy have I been busy! My position as an intervention specialist is a bit of a mixed bag - inclusion support, co-teaching, consultation, and resource room - I do it all! My second day on the job, I held my first IEP meeting for two new students (twins) that would be joining me for resource room support, and since then I've held a total of 5 IEP meetings! (5/18 of my caseload in the first 3 weeks? Not what I was expecting, but I have definitely learned SO much!)
I love that my position encompasses so many different aspects of teaching, but that also means that I have to be super flexible and expect the unexpected. This has been quite a shift for me, coming out of a student teaching placement in a general education classroom!
The most rewarding and challenging aspect of my job right now is working with students in the resource room. I am the main teacher for ELA and math for these 7 second grade kiddos whose needs are extremely varied. None of the 7 are reading at grade level, and for math, the students are receiving a modified 1st grade curriculum.
To boost reading in my classroom, I LOVE Raz-Kids - and the kids love it too! It makes my teacher heart so happy to know that they love it so much! My favorite part is having the students record themselves reading so that I can listen to it later. They are SO funny - and all of them are working so hard!
We have been working dilligently on 'ee' words for our spelling list - and today we had a chance to read a special read-aloud with lots of 'ee' words. We read Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw, and the kiddos loved finding the 'ee' words in the story - and playing with the 'ee' chunk to make their own words. To give them some extra practice, we even made our own sheep with some 'ee' words written on them! Who says special education can't be fun?! :)
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