During my time as a student teacher, I taught lessons from Engage NY for our math block. I liked that each of the lessons had different elements that you could pull from, including a word problem, review and example problems to do with the students.

Farmington Municipal Schools uses Istation as a progress monitoring tool for reading interventions. As my time as a student teacher, we would test the student monthly and track their growth, both as a teacher and with the students. As a Title I Instructional Assistant, I reviewed students progress that we were seeing in the 95% program, to determine which students would receive an intervention. I am familiar with the five levels that students are sorted into, as well as the different subtopics that they are tested on.

As a student teacher, I used this program for my students that completed work early. It has so many options, both for ELA and Math that the students can work on. There are also many different targeted programs within MobyMax to help the students excel. I would also use this for all my students as a center during their ELA and Math centers.

As a student teacher, I have limited access to Powerschool, but was able to go on to take attendance, as well as observe my Cooperating Teacher enter grades for the nine week grading period.

I completed my student teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic, as a result, part of my student teaching was done online. Farmington Schools used schoology for a way to connect with students. Before the school closure, I attended brief training on Schoology, as well as spend limited time on monitoring my students.

This was used to access the Journey's program, read aloud's and reader's notebook pages.

During my time as a student teacher, I would assign students games to play each week to practice the list of spelling words. I really liked this program, as it also had games about the vowel sounds, (such as long versus short vowels) as well as the meaning of the words, and not just the spelling.