Pltw Reflection Paper

This week in third grade was very different, it was a short week due to our professional development. Monday was a normal day starting with our spelling unit which I have already taken over. I am still helping the students work through the first day by explaining the skill. This week I asked students to work on day two independently and turn it in when they finished. I was noticing that students were not doing the work and waiting to fill it in until we went over it as a class. After they were asked to turn it in and work finish/make changes during their ILT I noticed the next day they worked harder. I think I will ask them to turn this in everyday and I will look over it. I need to get better at making sure my students are fully understanding the skill each day before I just ask them to keep moving through a skill they do not understand. At the end of the …show more content…
I had so much fun learning from all of the other schools. On Thursday we had a Marker Space Training, within our own school from Katie Fisher, our librarian. This training took us through what our students will be creating this year. We made our very own set of Google Glasses and took a virtual reality tour. We then talked about how in our school system many of our students will never be out of the state and have no scheme. This new tool can be used when we explore flight in PLTW. We can have students take a VR ride on a plane in order to fully understand what it is line. This was such a learning experience for me because I love science and I wanted to see how our students will be challenged. After this training I stayed and talked with Mrs. Fisher and we have now started a cross curriculum unit on bridges. We will be reading Pops bridges and then creating bridges using our new knowledge. This will be our STEM project for the quarter. I cannot wait to see where my students will go and if this will help them understand science and reading in a different