This past week I spent half days teaching various grades.
Wednesday was 4th in the morning and 2nd in the afternoon.
Thursday was a killer day. I taught kindergarten in the morning, 1st in the afternoon and then 4-10 pm I taught night-school high school math (with one period who had three students who didn't even attend night school in my class being disruptive. This day was certainly out of the ordinary.
Friday I taught 5th in the morning and 3rd in the afternoon.
The school in which I was subbing Wednesday through Friday was having "data digs" for half days. "Data digs" are where test results (MAPS or Scantron or other) are discussed on a child by child basis by the grade level teams and usually an administrator for at least part of the session and SPED teachers as needed.
In each class there was a literacy component. Well, not in my night school math class, but in my K-5 classes. It was great fun and good experience to teach all grade levels K-5 in a three day period. Seeing the low, middle and high performers in each group and using the same curriculum as a base gave me insight to how students learn to use higher level thinking regarding literacy in a way I hadn't been able to see before.
In the next few days, as I have time, I'll post some thoughts about what I learned.
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