My Learning Goals and Practicum Plan

- One of my learning goals is to do a tutor activity dealing with reading and letters. I am specializing in English so I really wanted to see how students react to reading and letters. Pre-k kids aren't exactly open to the idea of sitting down and writing their letters out. I knew since I am with a pre-k class this semester that doing an activity with reading would be hard, but actually just today I got to do an activity with letters. In this activity I worked with 3 students who are struggling with letter recognition. I found it interesting that these students could spell and write their name correctly in order. However, when I asked them to name the same letters in their name just in a different order, it was an impossible task for them. I also got to see how pre-k students handle not wanting to do something you ask them to. They just sit and stair at you.
- I haven't made a lot of changes to my plan so far, just changing some dates around. I am at my PDS school on a Monday and so far there have been two days where I wasn't able to go for a holiday and an ISE day. I have made pretty good progress on my plan and only have a few activities that I need to complete before the semester ends. In all honesty, I haven't looked at my plan once, this is mainly because I write everything down in my planner, when it's due and when I plan on doing it. So making my plan was really just me taking my planner and putting it in a different format that doesn't really work for me. It was a good idea in the sense that it really made me think about the whole semester and when I needed to have things done by. My progress with my plan overall has been good, I just don't look at it very often since I already have stuff written down in my planner.