My day began at 7:45 this morning with attending a Webinar focusing on integrating technology through DiscoveryEducation.com in the language arts classroom. On Thursday of this week, I will be observing a lesson at Berkmar Middle School that was discussed this morning. After the observation and final Webinar, I will be responsible for reporting my findings to the rest of the sixth grade language arts department. I look forward to seeing how Berkmar integrates technology into their curriculum and being given the opportunity to network with other teachers in our county that will be in attendance.
During both of my planning hours today, I helped Lisa with a few different tasks. First, I helped her with comparing the list of students who had not completed required online registration forms to paper copies the students needed to return. While it wasn't required this year for paper copies to be turned in (one sheet from their agenda books), it certainly helped to narrow down our list of students with outstanding documentation. Next, Lisa showed me how to go through the My Payments Plus website, where parents pay various school fees and indicate whether they've read required forms, and "simulate" the parent to check off documents. It's hard to believe that 5 weeks into school that we are STILL completing necessary tasks for registration.
For the students who did not have updated information in the online registration system received a packet of papers to take home with their 4 1/2 week progress check paper to complete. At the end of the day, I went back up to Lisa's office to help with updating parent contact information and emergency contact information. This required me to log in to the SASI database and search for a student and change the indicated information. This process took a while because one student may have phone numbers to change as well as emergency contact information for up to 4 people. This task will help me wrap up my Internship hours because these sheets will be coming in this week and next as students return their progress check letter.
Today was evidence of how much work our LSTC is responsible for. The work is very tedious and time consuming at times. Much of it seems repetitious; however, it is necessary.
Time logged
on 9/10: 4 hours
Total time logged: 22.5
hours
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