My host teacher looks ahead and sets a goal keeping in mind what is happening and the goals of the team of 3rd grade teachers. Most of the planning is done by the week and sometimes we plan out two weeks ahead.
As for observations, most are done mentally, but he does perform written and verbal assessments of the children (DRA, Dibels, etc.)
The lesson plans themselves are set up in a weekly format with block of times and pullouts blocked out so that we can visually see what we are supposed to do.Inside those blocks are written out the lesson map.
I am also involved highly in using Taskstream to make up our lesson plans to add the GLEs and have a typed format. We use this as a team as well as turning them into the office to meet our Title One Chapter Three expectations.
Matthew:
ReplyDeleteThat is great that you are using TaskStream as a team in a real, connected way! I haven't gotten familiar enough with TaskStream to have found it greatly helpful so far, so that will be my goal in the near future!