Journal 10
Excel and More As an ESE teacher, my job is to teach and help students of various abilities and diagnoses. A large part of the job is keeping data sheets. These data sheets can track a variety of things, including: behavior, food, speech, and skills like reading, writing, or math. Excel and other apps like it seem to be the choice method for ESE teachers trying to stay organized. The information would be easy to store, but also easy to print out when going to parent teacher conferences or IEP meetings. I've also seen a teacher use it to keep track of her students' reading levels. She had each student listed with their words read per minute, and continued to add numbers as she retested her students. I don't know what method I would use to grade assignments yet, but you could probably use Excel to do that as well. I reviewed a couple of my classmate's blogs. A lot of people had the same material, which is not surprising, since we write off of prompts. However, I...
