This was my third year teaching Word Mapping. I am nowhere near perfect, but I get better each year. The pace of the instruction is driven by my students needs. My students this year were very diverse which made lesson preparation difficult.
Maturity levels of students also altered.
My strengths were teaching prefixes to the class. These affixes are easy to find, easy to define, and easy to explain.
My weaknesses contained having students make memory tables with suffixes. These definitions are hard to generalize for students to really own them.
Groups of students over the three years have consisted of groups of diverse students anywhere from 11 students to 17 students. The smaller the class the better.
Notebook management is still a challenge. I am good at it and some students are good at it, but managing students behaviors, learning, and notebooks are challenging.
All in all the program is good.
Maturity levels of students also altered.
My strengths were teaching prefixes to the class. These affixes are easy to find, easy to define, and easy to explain.
My weaknesses contained having students make memory tables with suffixes. These definitions are hard to generalize for students to really own them.
Groups of students over the three years have consisted of groups of diverse students anywhere from 11 students to 17 students. The smaller the class the better.
Notebook management is still a challenge. I am good at it and some students are good at it, but managing students behaviors, learning, and notebooks are challenging.
All in all the program is good.