MacDonald_portfolio_anecdotalrecord

Anecdotal Record: [|macdonald anecdotal record.docx]

1. **Grade Level:** 2 **Content: Anecdotal Record during daily journal writing** 2. **Objectives:** Students will create 5 or more sentences on the prompt provided. Students will create 5+ ways to represent the number of the day. 3. **Assessment Criteria and instrument**: observation as well as weekly checks by the teacher. 4. **Analysis of Data:** I picked these four students strategically. The students behaved as expected. I chose one who sits at his desk and does as told the entire day, as well as one who is a pretty middle range student. Two students I chose act out or do not as directed frequently. 5. **Sample of student work** - N/A 6. **Recommendations for future instruction for the entire class:** The teacher could provide less time to complete the daily journals because most are done quickly. The teacher often does other work while the students do their morning routine. If the teacher was not doing other tasks, she could keep students on track. 7. **Recommendations for future instruction for the sampled students:** N: This student tries to distract others during independent work time. For a short period of time, she was separated from the groups and sat alone. During this time, more work got done. Perhaps it is most effective for her to sit separately. J: This student does as directed and hardly ever speaks. On this particular day, he got caught up in some of the classroom chatter, but was able to listen to his peers talking and still get his work done at the same time. S: This student requires frequent attention to be sure she is on task. Often times, she sits with her journal out and once students start completing and moving on to silent activities, she puts hers away too, but it is blank. The teacher does not notice this until she collects all the journals to read, and it is not until this point that the student has to make up for nearly a week's worth of writing and math journals. A: This student is good at using her resources available in the classroom, especially the word wall and her 100's chart. Perhaps she will gain confidence in completing journals without aids of these charts by progressively using them less and less frequently.