ed522: interview with val sheridan comer (version 2!!!!)
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Interview with a Val-pire
By Wyatt Hall, with the great help of Valerie Sheridan ComerED522
June 21, 2012Prof. Lynne Wissink-Tressler
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Just the Facts, Jack
• Interviewed Valerie Sheridan Comer
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Just the Facts, Jack
• Since 2006, she has worked at Holy Trinity School, which is located in Georgetown
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Just the Facts, Jack
• She is a reading instructional assistant
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Explain a typical Monday in your classroom.
• Empty classroom at 7:30 AM (because she’s a reading specialist)
• DLR: daily language review
• Picture walk with predictions for story
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Explain a typical Monday in your classroom.
• Introduce spelling pattern of the week
• Brainstorm words and pre-test
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Explain a typical Monday in your classroom.
• Reading together from chapter books
• Draw and Write
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What are some of the biggest problems you had to face this past year as a teacher?
3rd Grade:• Almost half of the
students have special needs
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What are some of the biggest problems you had to face this past year as a teacher?
• 3rd Grade:• Almost half of the
students have special needs
• Those needs are addressed by school through observations and rearrangement of student’s class schedule
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What are some of the biggest problems you had to face this past year as a teacher?
4th Grade:• Males - beginning of
pecking order• Females - beginning
of cattiness
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What are some of the biggest problems you had to face this past year as a teacher?
4th Grade:• Males - beginning of
pecking order• Females - beginning
of cattiness
• Intake year for a few new students
• Questioning why most things need to be done
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What ideas or activities from your graduate classes are you implementing?
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Storyboard, i.e. digital
storytelling (ED554)
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Running records (ED522)
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Is there not enough of something in the classroom?
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Physical space!
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What advice would you give to a teacher who was just entering the
elementary school system, specifically 2nd to 4th grade?
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LISTEN!
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Not necessarily just in words
but also behavior,
gestures and other actions
Kids will try to communicate to the best of their abilities.
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Recap questions
• Where does Val teach?
• What’s a DLR?
• What’s the main difficulty with her third graders?
• What should new elementary school teachers remember to do, and why?