My Problem of Practice

Problem: How do I adapt my individualized teaching style, build a personal connection, and engage the students by eliminating the robotic feel this ridged reading curriculum leaves me feeling?

The SFA reading program has a lot of positive aspects of build a cooperative learning classroom.  The program works on reading fluency, Think–N-Connect, write-on, meaningful sentences, reading and response, reading comprehension, and adventures in writing.  The student praise, classroom cheers, and team points that applies student support.  I would like to see more formative assessment and classroom use of technology.  With this great system, I am frustrated and needing to feel a connection because I feel this system is too robotic in its deliverance of lessons.  I hope to find some adaptive methods or techniques that I believe will support this curriculum and bridge my teaching style.

My Family

I love my step-daughter, a step-son, and two boys of my own from the ages of 21 to 7.  I would say that family is the most important thing on this earth and my husband is truly an amazing support.  We take all of my extra time to spend with our children and at times this isn't easy since we all live in different towns and states.  We love spending our family time in these areas hiking, basketball, bike riding, family game night, sledding, building Legos, and traveling to a new place on family vacations.  We have our challenges of trying to get all of us together two times out of the year.  However, we love Skype and other electronic devices to keep communication strong.

     

Getting To Know Me Better

I am very excited to get started in this class because I have so much to learn about technology in the classroom. This is my second class using blogs and I am still working out the kinks on how this works.  I enjoy the little use I have had with blogging, but I feel a little out of my skin navigating around this site.  I really want to take my learning of blogs into the classroom and by next year use it to build the communication between the students and parents.

Missouri River

Downtown Wolf Point

I live on the Fort Peck Reservation in Wolf Point, Montana.  We are located in the far east corner of the state and north of the Missouri River.  Wolf Point is the county seat of Roosevelt County and is the largest city in the county, boasting a population of 3,000 residents.
Wolf Point, Montana

I am a 3rd grade Teacher at Southside Elementary school with a classroom size of 28 students.  I really enjoy working with my school team!  We work very hard to increase our school curriculum and student scores.
Please take a look at our school website:  Wolf Point School District
We are also on Facebook:   Southside Elementary