Hi Dana
I had been thinking about you since I last wrote and wanted to say right away that you have been doing a great job! Yes, there are ups and downs, but you took a lot of responsibility for the teaching very early, and you have established yourself with the students. Yes, you will have really frustrating times/days, however you have done the most difficult work of starting out with a class in the end of the year. You are obviously very interested in the content, you have students experience it in multi-dimensional ways, you use technology is a very impressive way..all of that is very good.
You identified getting your 3 ring notebook prepared for Barbara's visit, and you are right. It is a very important part of the expectations for student teachers. Any planning, any reflecting- you may want to copy some of the blogs, and way to describe your teaching situation..eg names of students, schedule, daily plans, weekly plans, long range planning, content etc etc..staff meeting agenda's, family info, school info...anything and everything that shows that you have a broad understanding of your placement. A calendar with your teaching days...on and on.
Usually, we want student notes: anecdotal records of behaviors/learning/etc about individual students. You always need to document what is happening with a student who is "out of the ordinary" in some way, and you may need to present info in an IEP meeting, parent meeting etc.
Attach your plan to Barbara the day before her visit.
Let me know how it goes.
And I will lookat this when I have a decent connection, which will be sporadic.
All the best
Gretchen
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