Observational Reflection!

Observational Reflection

While observing Mrs. Poai's math lesson I noticed things that I hadn't really been able to pinpoint before. Goes to show when you are looking for it you can find it. I was looking for the good and I found it. I know that isn't really what this reflection was for, but because of it I am going to remember to look for the good in my future lessons and the good in my students and I will find it. It is still important to find and fix the things that aren't the best and improve as much as possible.

Back to the lesson that was observed. The first thing that I was able to notice was that she stated the objective right at the beginning of the lesson. “Today we are going to learn how to write and count to in the teens.” Not only did she state the objective she stated it at least 4 times that I heard. If the students didn't know what the lesson was about it was because they were not doing their part in the lesson.

When the students were not acting like they should of, and were talking when Mrs. Poai was talking she would stop talking and wait for them. But she didn't just wait for them to be quite she told them why she was waiting for them to pay attention. She let them know that she had to wait for them to listen because this is important for them to learn. She talked about how they needed to learn this, so they could do their best in 2^nd grade. She got them to see the bigger picture for a minute. They needed to learn this for 2^nd grade. She showed them that she wanted them to do their best in 2^nd grade and she was trying to help them they best she could, but they had to do their part to learn.

Her methods of teacher were also great she used a poem in this math lesson and also used the students in her object lesson. She picked students to come up to the front so the rest of the class could count them. She also noticed that one student wasn't paying attention so she had him come up and help her. She didn't call him out on not listening she just got him engaged.

One other thing that I noticed was that she motivated the students but letting them know that after they learned about “the teens” they were going to use the white boards and play a game. The students love to play with the white boards. At first being able to use the white boards was an extrinsic motivation, but when they were playing the math game the white boards were an intrinsic motivation.

I hope that my teaching is similar to Mrs. Poai's but I know I have a ways to go to get their. She seems to see everything. She sees the student that need a little push, she see the student that need to help her to stay engaged, she knows her students so well. She was able to adjust her lesson to better fit her students and that is what it is all about.

Week 11

In our first grade class we made a story. As a class we first wrote a story about plants, because that is what we were learning about in science. As we wrote the story, we told the students that we were going to make it into a movie. That got them excited to make the story great. After we had written the story we had each student illustrate a page of the story. After that we took pictures of their drawings and used photostory to narrate the story and make the "movie" of their story.

Today in class we got to go to the movies we used the projector to make it a big screen movie. All the students were excited to see their movie and thought it was great that it was their pictures and their voices.

Week 10

In our classroom literacy is very important. And it is the emphasis for half of each day. The students have just finished writing stories on their own. And now we want to write a story as a class. To teach them about beginning, middle, and end. And also using detail and good grammar to make a good story.

After we write the story as a class we are going to have each student illustrate a page fo the story. And take a picture of the page and have each student narrate their page. And make a photo story out of it. We will also bind the pages that they make and have a finished book that they can read during free time.

In-Class Teaching Reflection

Overall I think that our lesson went very well. There were weak points as well as strengths. I thought the hook was a good idea but we could have chosen a better movie. I had never seen that movie before and was a little uncomfortable watching it in class, which I am sure someone else in the class might have felt the same way. As a teacher I would never want anyone in my classroom to feel uncomfortable.

The definition game was a good idea, but when it was put into practice it didn't go over so well. The students were not into it. I didn't think that they got much out of it. After the first couple of word the students stopped participating. Next time I would make it more exciting for the students. If it was more of a competition, or if the words had a harder definitions. It would also be fun to put the book definition in the mix and have the students try and guess which definition was from the book.

The scale of intrinsic to extrinsic motivation was a good activity. It gave the students an opportunity to apply was we were learning to their lives. It also gave them a chance to get up out of their desks and move.

By far the best part of the lesson were the skits. The entire lesson I felt like we were trying to drag responses out of the class. It seemed like most of the them weren't not engaged in the lesson. The skits helped get the students excited about learning. Good things about the skits were that we were able to give them examples and they got to have the opportunity to show us if they understood. Having a time limit on it was great. We didn't waste anytime and each group did a wonderful job. Another great thing about the skits were that we had props. I really think the props help the students get excited about actually doing the play and they also gave students ideas on what they should do for their play.

Throughout our lesson we used many different psychology principles. Our lesson was on motivation. Throughout the entire lesson we were trying to keep the students extrinsically motivated. We gave incentives and rewards. Most of the reasons behind what we did was to motivate students to learn about motivation, also to motivate them to be teachers, and show them way in which they could motivate their own students.

Virtual Tour of Napoleon

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Virtual Tour of Napoleon

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I hope this works.

TPACK

Content: For this assignment I am doing
Grade 6
Standard 3: Students will understand how revolutions have had an impact on the modern world.
Obj 2a:Identify representative people from selected revolutions (e.g. Napoleon, Martin Luther, James Watt, Isaac Newton, Madame Curie, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek).

Pedagogy: For this activity I am going to let the student do a lot exploring/researching on their own. As the see the places where these historical events happened in Napoleon's life, they will find out on their own the real significance of these places.

Technology: For this lesson I will be using Google Earth and I will be making a virtual tour. So that my students will be able to see some of the places that were important to Napoleon life.