Linda, I used a problem solving technique to instigate the discussion with statements aimed at discovering solutions. Besides these, in class discussion, we talked about the instructional leadership approaches by Glickman. Problem solving by “requesting the learners and teachers jointly engage in the processes of discovering and developing new strategies.” (Textbook: p59) This is regarded as a collaborative interpersonal approach.…
In this process, the student first solves the problem and verbalizes the processes used, then writes he step-by-step process and identifies it on the model.” (Miles and Forchs, p. 6). While the teacher is helping the student along, he or she can monitor what areas the student might be struggling with. If the teacher is instructing a large classroom, this strategy might be better done in small groups. There is considerable evidence to indicate a that verbalizing upper level math problems has a pos6itive impact.…
To begin this lesson I will give a brief overview of the focus wall with what we discussed yesterday. Today we will be focusing on the essential question. Then we will talk about the sight word go and our letter we are working with this week is C/c. I will ask a few brief questions from the class about the material. Guided Practice: 1.…
When there were not too many people, I usually would go to each person and worked with each individual. However, sometimes working with someone individually was difficult, especially when it was exam week for them, because there were so many people that it was challenging to explain each concept and problems one on one. During exam week, I would make my students sit in groups and ask them to help each other out first. Then, if someone or a couple of people still did not understand anything I would go over it with them together. Afterwards, I would give them practice exams, which I make beforehand to make sure they understand everything well enough to do well on the actual exam.…
BSC 307 Clinical Planning Commentary 1. Central Focus a. Describe the central focus and purpose for the content you will teach in this learning segment. The central focus of this lesson is to help the students understand, how energy flows in an ecosystem and how much energy is transferred by each trophic level. The purpose of the lesson is to help the students realize that energy continuously flows and is recycled throughout an ecosystem.…
Performance Activity 43: The use of technology impacts student learning by how learning can be enhanced. Dr. Ruben Puentedura, developer of the SAMR Model, is types of exposure and enhancements of technology integration. The four types are: substitution, augmentation, modification, and redefinition. For example, Ms. Boerema uses the projector to project notes to write on the board for students, which this is substitution. The impact on student learning does not negatively impact their learning, but it does impact student learning positively by having clear notes on the whiteboard.…
This strategy would be used during the Guided Practice portion of the lesson. Instead of allowing students to simply choose a partner, I would see which students would benefit from working with certain other students. Allowing students to interact socially and negotiate their understanding with one another will help construct knowledge. The scaffolding technique will help support the learner with modeling, questions, suggestions and hints. These will gradually be removed as the learner shows he/she understands and has acquired the knowledge to continue on their own.…
I completed my field experience hours at Volusia Pines Elementary School in Lake Helen Florida. I was able to work with my nephew’s first grade teacher, Mrs. Erica Stevens. Altogether I spent 16 hours with Mrs. Stevens and her students. Mrs. Stevens has worked at Volusia Pines Elementary School for eight years. Her class is a general education class with seventeen students, of the seventeen students nine are girls and eight are boys.…
I have been observing a Spanish 1 class at Faith Christian School. For the teaching lesson, I chose to use a reader called Asi Leemos. It is a reader that the school purchased two years ago to try and improve reading comprehension. The reader is broken up in three units that follow the vocabulary and grammar lessons that are typical to a level 1 classroom. The reader is a collection of chapters that tell about two high school students.…
Audience Analysis Student 1 Lorraine: Lorraine’s native language is Spanish. She has been studying English since kindergarten and has been my student since the beginning of the school year. Lorraine is in the intermediate fluency stage of language development. She is able to read text and relate the context of the reading to the lesson. She does well on critical thinking test questions.…
Scaffolding is the appropriate assistance given to students in order to aid them in achieving what alone may have been too difficult for them; it is using previous knowledge and experience to support the learning or new information. It is essential in all classrooms, for all students, but it particularly important for ELL students as they are not only absorbing new academic information but a new language as well. Scaffolding makes input more comprehensible but also serves to decrease the fear or boredom that comes from a student’s limited understanding the classroom. There are three main types of scaffolding: verbal, procedural and instructional. In my physics lesson plan – which begins with a discussion to solidify students’ beginning knowledge then moves into an experiment, mini lecture and group work – I believe I utilize all three of them.…
Be specific. The challenges I faced in my read aloud lesson were students talking during the extension activity. I did not have anything else for the students who finished very quickly, so I allowed them to talk to their neighbor if their neighbor was also finished. This distracted students who were still working; therefore, not all students completed the extension activity to the best of their ability.…
One of the most gratifying experiences I have had is working as a Supplemental Instruction Leader. The Supplemental Instruction (SI) Program is a resource provided to students by UT Dallas’s Student Success Center. As a General Chemistry SI Leader, I attended General Chemistry I and II lectures, prepared my own lesson plans, and led SI sessions to help students improve their knowledge of General Chemistry and score better in the class. Being an SI Leader has been a phenomenal experience. I learned many skills, including the ability to engage a classroom, create innovative studying activities, and improve my own communication.…
Introduction Almost everybody would say that music plays a very important role in their life, or that they just could not live without music. I could not agree more with them; music is present most of the time everywhere I go, every task I perform. Of course, when I teach music is one of the most important elements in my EFL classes. Students seems to enjoy my classes and the music in them, but what is the pedagogical support behind this practice? Why is music so important in EFL classes?…
Which strategies do you like? As an educator, I think that anything can be implemented into the classroom as long that it is used for the purpose of learning. Every educator has a different way of teaching and implementing different methods. I would definitely implement the use of different manipulative.…