Week Eight
Throughout my time at Central, I've struggled with assessment. Most of the first week, the students had work days. I then had my first taste of leading a class, which was when a student smacked me. From there, I've been focused on classroom management and regaining what I lost when I failed to respond to the student who smacked me. So, on white days, I've been working on managing group work and maintaining order and have kind of failed to work on assessments as much as I should've. That's not to say assessing doesn't happen. I've been giving students a lot of writing assignments between quick writes or full essays. All of these bits of writing have been getting turned in to me and then their successes or failures drive the next day's lessons. I just don't know what else to write, though. I've had them write and then I've collected it. My mentors have bellwork for them as grammar review and my white day mentor has vocab quizzes and tests, b...