jueves, 15 de febrero de 2018

Fourth day in Oakton

Class English and History
Teachers
60 students approximately.

Ap Advance Placement  is a class for preparing students for college

Sophomores 10° can choose the combined class or separated ...Seniors 12° have te option too.
Teachers works together ..For instance History class teaches the French revolution and English read a book about that .... English assess with projects or group work, presentation and History assess with written test. At the end of the year students shoul take a big test about history, the test is set by an independent company. If they pass the get  a college acreditation.

Standard world History Class
9th

50% have learning disability, it requires two teachers: the general education teacher and a special education teacher.
Today studenst work independently

Kahoo is  website to test students ... It says who answered first  in the scoreboard.. teacher gives candiues to the winners.

School Counseling
There are 7 school conuselor n the school. Each one has 300.
They should have a master's degree in counseling
They identify things but, they don't do therapy
Guide students about the courses the can sign up for next year
The main role is to keep students of the academic track, school behavior problems, guidances for college admissions, give lesson about the classes toy will have next year, the graduation, career for seniors, stress management, team work, smoth problems between students and teachers. Parents are too involve with the education and they complain by grades, Students text their parents as soon as they think something is wrong and parents inmediately call the counselor.  Many parents have economic power and talk directly with the intendent or the board.

Social worker helps to connect the school and agencies, for example If they have food problems they conect with the institute to solve the problem, the same with transpostation, etc.

Psychologist have 22 students to apply therapist.
89% of students in Oakton go to college.

Students use a "bathroom pass"bn to go to the bathroom during classes. It can be a toy or a symbol the teacher gives them. If a assistant principal see them aoutside the classroom they just show it.

English 4
Dr. Cruz

Pop quiz online. Students logged in Google classroom and found a quiz of 5 sentences with multiple choices about the topic the learned the day before. Teacher  gave a feedback of each single sentence, explaining the grammar rule that follows and the correct response.

Second, the teacher talked about the singles stories they had heard the class before, gave some real explamles about her and asked them to talk to their partners about the single stories they has before coming to the U.S, then single  and hidden stories about high school. after that, they read a text about single stories teachers have in the world. It was a result of an exercise someone did with pupils of elementary school. She asked them to complete the sentence "I wish my teacher knew..."

Later, they listened an an audio about the sentences high school students said about their teachers.
I wish my teacher knew... Students expressed their feelings aout what they had heard.
They open google classroom and complete the first assignment ... I wish my teacher knew... (3 sentences)

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