Mrs. Raja

 My goal that I set at the beginning of this practicum included; become familiar with Goal book, how to use a break out room in zoom, and to design effective strategies. I used Goal book to find assessments, progress monitoring tools, and measurable goals for students. I think that I will use Goal book more often this school year after I have had the opportunity to navigate it and discover applicable features. I am not like the queen of break out rooms but I have gotten much better at this. Overall, I have learned how to use different features on zoom. Being able to feel confident in my ability to use zoom helped me relax when teaching. The last goal was to design effective strategies that would lead students to meeting their goals. I think that being able to work with a co-teacher really helped with that. We could share ideas and things that worked for us in the past.  The first week I was really anxious. I was worried about jumping right in, the workload, and the smoothness ...

Lesson Topic : Writing 5-complete sentences (paragraph)                                       Date : 7/21/25 Taught : How to generate ideas for writing, how to organize ideas for writing to a prompt, how to write a 5-sentence paragraph to a prompt What went well: I started the lesson off with a picture of many different types of favorite foods. The students loved looking at all the pictures of foods and pointing out which ones they liked. We had a discussion about our favorite foods. We talked about reasons why these foods were our favorites. I introduced the purpose of the lesson and the students understood the objective to write 5 complete sentences to the writing prompt. We talked about how this was an opinion piece and what made it such. We then picked 8 favorite foods to narrow down ideas, on a bubble map. I modeled how to organized ideas into the "My Favorite Food" graphic organize...

  Lesson Topic:    Subtracting 2 Two-digit Numbers with Regrouping                     Date: 7/15/25   Taught: Subtracting 2 Two-digit Numbers with Regrouping    What went well: I used some boom cards at the beginning of the lesson to guide the students through the process. They worked out great because they had the equation, base-ten blocks, and steps laid out on the slide. Both students seem to like this way of introducing the concepts of borrowing and regrouping. I used the whiteboard in zoom to have both students work on different examples. They were able to work through each problem and explain their thinking. They enjoyed using the whiteboard, I think they feel like they are in control when they get to write on the whiteboard. I went over the independent practice sheet with them before they started working. This sheet did not have the subtraction symbol so I pointed that out to make sure they unde...

 My 1st observation was a reading comprehension lesson using Enemy Pie.  My class consisted of two students both rising 4th graders. Both of these students have reading comprehension goals on a 2nd grade level.                                                                                                                                                                                ...