Mylan Park Elementary Week 7

This week at Mylan Park we wrapped up a two week unit on the human body. I believe that the students really enjoyed it, and I am very pleased with the overall outcome. We did many hands on activities to simulate different body functions, and built a human body with paper plates, and organ print outs. I continued on with my action research. I am so proud of my students and the progress we are making with it. I have also been trying to pull together my contract hours for next semester. This has been quite challenging due to the fact that I am completing them at three different schools, and have little communication with my first home school where I am required to do hours. I attended two IEP meetings which was really nice to be a part of. The meetings were very different because one of them had a re-evaluation. These meetings made me realize how much work goes into being a special education teacher and that it is going to be difficult to lead an IEP meeting. I had a hard time hearing some of the things that have to be said, and believe that I am going one day have a hard time delivering information to caring parents. The IEP meetings helped me learn a lot about my students and more about their goals and modifications. I think it is very important to know your students well to provide them with the best learning environment possible.