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Assessments are used to collect data on knowledge, skill, attitudes, and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning. As a student I use to think about assessment in a negative way, now that I am on the other side as a teacher I realize there is much more to assessment that what meets theContinue reading “What is Assessment? And what’s the importance?”

Having been a paraprofessional for 5years I have seen the good and the bad when it comes to co-teaching. Co-teaching is like forming a relationship, it is up to the two people involved to make it a healthy or unhealthy one. When I first decided to become a special educator I knew that most likelyContinue reading “Co-teaching”

When I first got into this profession I kept hearing the word differentiate, I ask myself what does it mean to differentiate? I kept doing my research and realize that the word differentiate means having different strategies for a diverse classroom of learners to understand new content that is being taught in the classroom. HowContinue reading “Differentiation”

So, at this point anxiety has reached an all-time high for me that I have never experience. When I found out that my caseload had changed and my first IEP was due in less than two weeks from the time I receive that case. Nevertheless, I started working on the IEP with the little informationContinue reading “Anxiety Around IEP”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. My name is Julieta a.k.a Juju. Blogging is all new to me so bear with me as I share my journey into my new career as a teacher. Scary right? I currently work at a high school in the Bronx where I teach Algebra 1Continue reading “Welcome”

First Observation Posted byjulietaj87October 19, 2019Posted inUncategorized I completed my first official observation. I was so nervous, to say the least. The anxiety went to an all-time high soon as I heard the door open and saw their faces. But I just had to tell myself “juju you didn’t reach this far for no reason.”Continue reading “First Observation”