Student Literacy Strategies

A) The instruction engaged students in developing the essential literacy strategy of visualization in multiple ways. By asking the students guiding questions throughout the whole lesson, they were always engaged and participating. In the introduction of the lesson the students got to respond with what they thought visualization meant. Next, they were able to respond with what they individually visualized when they thought of the word chicken. Many students were smiling and engaged during this point of the lesson because that was not a very difficult task and they were able to come up to the board to draw what they thought. The guiding questions and thumbs up thumbs down informal assessment kept the students on their toes and kept them focused …show more content…
We each knew what we were going to say, but the transition from teacher to teacher was a bit awkward at times. By practicing these transitions, we would have been clearer with our directions. This would improve better support for student learning and decrease the silence after we asked questions. Also, I would change the amount of time that I played with my hair. It could have been distracting for the students and conveyed a nervous energy. Another change that I would make would be to make sure that I was talking to all of the students in the room, not just the ones in front of me. If we had more time to set up I would have moved that tables around so that every one was facing the board. The camera was set up in front of us so we were all speaking to the camera, students in front of us, and the professor who was grading us. The students towards the back unfortunately received less eye contact than the students in the front. Although there are always many changes to make the last one that I thought of was that we shouldn’t call on the first student who raised their hand. Given the time restraints we did not allow much wait time, however it is important to give enough time for the students to think about the question, formulate their answer and gain confidence to raise their hand (Stahl,