1. Describe the context of your teaching and how that influenced instructional decision making.
a. We wanted students to create solutions for world hunger problems that are happening domestically and globally. Therefore, to make the activity hands-on, we had students go around to different “obstacles” or stations and generate different solutions. This worked well because we were able to spread students out and cover a lot more information. For Borlaug Day we were in a barn, so we decided to do discussion outside of the barn and the obstacles within the barn to make sure students were moving around. As students went to the stations, we made sure to walk around and prompt students with questions or ideas to get them thinking. In addition, we …show more content…
Another change was the use of classroom management, which we really didn’t think about it beforehand. A couple groups, one in particular, definitely needed some classroom management to keep them under control. One group was before lunch and they had a hard time concentrating on the activity and paying attention. Therefore, we sat them down and really reiterated the fact that people who go hungry everyday don’t get a meal or food at all. We told them to think about that and to not be complaining about being hungry for lunch. Instead, they should be listening to the lesson and thinking of ways to help these people.
3. Next time we teach this content we need to remember to…
a. Think about classroom management, especially pertaining to the location we are teaching the lesson.
b. Plan for prompting questions and connections to make. It was a little difficult to come up with some on the spot, when students were struggling with particular things.
c. Make sure students know that some of the obstacles are realistic and others could happen, but might not be right now.
d. Keep a timer going for each station, because at times we didn’t and that messed up our lesson a little.
4. Next time we teach students of this age we need to remember
a. We wanted students to create solutions for world hunger problems that are happening domestically and globally. Therefore, to make the activity hands-on, we had students go around to different “obstacles” or stations and generate different solutions. This worked well because we were able to spread students out and cover a lot more information. For Borlaug Day we were in a barn, so we decided to do discussion outside of the barn and the obstacles within the barn to make sure students were moving around. As students went to the stations, we made sure to walk around and prompt students with questions or ideas to get them thinking. In addition, we …show more content…
Another change was the use of classroom management, which we really didn’t think about it beforehand. A couple groups, one in particular, definitely needed some classroom management to keep them under control. One group was before lunch and they had a hard time concentrating on the activity and paying attention. Therefore, we sat them down and really reiterated the fact that people who go hungry everyday don’t get a meal or food at all. We told them to think about that and to not be complaining about being hungry for lunch. Instead, they should be listening to the lesson and thinking of ways to help these people.
3. Next time we teach this content we need to remember to…
a. Think about classroom management, especially pertaining to the location we are teaching the lesson.
b. Plan for prompting questions and connections to make. It was a little difficult to come up with some on the spot, when students were struggling with particular things.
c. Make sure students know that some of the obstacles are realistic and others could happen, but might not be right now.
d. Keep a timer going for each station, because at times we didn’t and that messed up our lesson a little.
4. Next time we teach students of this age we need to remember