Last week, I scheduled my three lessons: two for late March and one for the last day of practicum in April. I think that I will benefit more from doing my lessons later--not because I procrastinate all the time (I actually am a recovering procrastinator), but because as of now, I have only seen two social studies lessons taught, and one of those lessons contained a video that took up the entire class. At Two Rivers, I am running into the same problem that I ran into at Campbell County last semester: the subjects that are not on the CATS test are the ones that get slighted. Two Rivers does not rotate those two around one block, but those will be the ones that are cut out if any need to be for any reason. In my class (7th grade--LA and SCI are tested), most of the time, they have spent their social studies time working on their transactive writing pieces for their portfolios. Since math and social studies are not tested in 7th grade, those are the classes that the students are given portfolio work time in.
I don't know how long the students have to do this, but I hope they finish these writing pieces soon, because I want to see a few more social studies lessons before I plan and teach one myself.
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