I think if there is one experience that I'm going to get a lot of here at my school, it's going to be about differentiation. I have an entire class that I need to change things up for, and it's definitely a challenge. 

You want lessons to be valuable and meaningful to students, but also within their comprehension. There are several students with learning difficulties but with no IPP's. This means that I have to teach grade 7 content to students that are at lower grade levels. 

I have to adjust almost every lesson to account for a lack of reading, writing and comprehension. 

So far the easiest way is to plan for the grade 7 Social Classes and then try to change it for the other class. I do this by doing the lesson with the students, instead of getting them to preform it on their own. It's a challenge because I'm worried they aren't taking as much out of the lesson as they could, but I'm not sure how else to teach it to them. It's also especially difficult when your classroom of 12 only has two students show up, and your lesson is scraped. I'll need to plan for that as well. 


One thing that I need to remember to do is to have assignments written up each time. That way, if a student misses a class, I can hand them the sheet and expect it to get done. 

Going to take some time for the students to get used to me. This is an extremely quiet class that doesn't really communicate much with me as the teacher. It's a new experience for me as usually I can get along with students fairly well. 

Partly this is because of the age range and students getting used to me coming in as the new teacher. I also think that the students seemed wary of me due to racial differences. I think that this is a good challenge and that students can learn to accept people for who they are, not what they are. 

Social Studies

Social Studies was an okay lesson, but not amazing. I'm definitely going to stick with my "morning meetings" as a way to connect with kids. 

When I do the timeline exercise tomorrow, I'm going to ask for the number of events, then look for specific example. I'll probably scrap the "what is the American Rev" question as it didn't really pan out. 

The Language Arts classes went way better, especially with the Hunger games Unit. With both classes, it was good to tie in personal opinions and stories. I will continue to do both of those for future lessons.