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I was given the opportunity to help do some clerical work in the classroom by grading assignments. I was able to help grade the students work books and literacy assignments. The teacher simply showed me how she did it and then gave me a bunch of them to work on. 

The workbooks were pretty easy because it was strictly fill in the blank answers. They were multiple choice questions and they were grammar questions.

The literacy assignments were also easy to grade, they were just reading comprehension questions and they were also multiple choice so it was easy to mark questions right or wrong.

The journal entries were harder to grade and it made me realize the difference in each student. A lot of the students were unable to spell simple words and sometimes it was really hard to understand what they wrote. The teacher must have been used to it by the end of the year because she was able to immediately tell me what the student had tried to write. 

Blog Entry 3

          One thing I noticed when I was observing teachers at Cherry Hill was that the teacher I observed had a specific time in her class where the kids were working in some workbooks, and the kids were all at different points in the work book depending on what they understood.
         I thought this was a good way to let the students who are struggling get help without being singled out. The teacher just walked through the room helping all the students as she passed there desks.
        I thought this was also a good way to let the students who seem to be a head of others learn and not get bored by learning things that they already know.

Blog Entry 2 June 3, 2016

             I enjoyed working with a young boy on his literacy assignment. His assignment was to write a journal entry about what he was excited to do about summer. He needed some assistance on spelling but the biggest issue he had was staying focused. it was interesting to see that little things helped him such as using a cushion to sit on when he was doing his work would help him concentrate on his assignments.
            Another situation I had was when I was working with a group of 4 students at a time. I was helping them with their comprehension workbooks. They all seemed to understand different concepts and I was required to adjust my teaching and explanations to work for each student, some were a bit behind according to their grade level requirements, some were right on their grade level, and some were a bit above their grade level and needed some more challenging exercises.