Monday 2/8/10

SA Parochial School

A modeled for a teacher how to introduce to students their differentiated instruction. She reminded them that they should be doing whatever is first on their list and then explained 5 students each will have a different thing to do than the rest of the class. She emphasized the fact that all the students would get a turn to have the special assignments.

Used MS word to create a table/information sheet on which students to record their animal research. The teacher provided the topics she wanted students to find out such as how thier animal reproduces, what it eats, where it lives. While students were using the sheet A and I helped students whose animals were more obscure to find additional websites with information about them.

A modeled use of custom animation and WordArt in PowerPoint. She showed students how to choose an animation and set the speed for it. Students were very excited to try this out in thier Black History month Powerpoints. We checked that students had all the information necessary before allowing them to move on to this part.