This past week my cooperating teacher gave me a lot more freedom. It was great. I administered a spelling test. The students responded very well. I did have two girls who started talking during the test and I handled it well. The teacher did chime in and say that if anymore people talked I had the responsibility of going over and marking -1 on their test for talking. I also got to lead the class in making note cards for their presentations. I needed to explain the reason we make note cards and then lead them through a  presentation using a note card. I felt that the students understood and were involved in the process. On Thursday I worked with an individual student in which we worked mainly on his note card for Tiger Woods. He wanted to write sentences and I had to explain to him that he just needed to put little reminders of what he wanted to say. It was a struggle but we got through it in the end.

On Tuesday of this week my students will be presenting their speeches. I am very excited to see their presentations because they have really worked hard.