Education 337

This week in class we did the second week of lesson plans. Overall the group of 5 people did great, I loved how engaging and fun theses lesson are. Lindsay Holler did a lesson over my traits,which I really love the whole lesson in general. What stood out to me was her anticipatory set about the self portrait to introduce a lesson over trait. I have to stay I loved the three activities that she choose for her students to do. I feel that she is going to make sure her students will come away understanding trait. I also loved her modification and extension for her students because she still kept fun of them. Great Job! I wish I could in a class and learn about trait this way. I feel that the students will remember this one for years to come.  Andrew Elliot did his lesson over Trophic Cascade and I really love his lesson plan. My favorite part was the independent practice because if fun game that the students would get to play. I would love to play a game like this when I was in sch...

Overall, I enjoyed each of the lesson plans that were discussed this week in class. I felt that each of them were great and I want to take these classes for the fun and engaging lesson. The first person that went was Rebecca.  I thought her lesson over fiction and the plot of the story was great. The first thing that stood out to me was the seesaw activity because it just sound fun and I believe that kids would enjoyed it. The second thing that stood out to me was allowing her students to use a book that they have read so meaning that each flow chart could be something different. I agree with Rebecca that the extension and modification for student this young can be difficult because i'm having trouble also. The next person that went was Rylee and  she had a lesson over the moon phases, which was so great. My favorite thing about this lesson was the Oreo cookie activity because this would keep the students engaged and I love little project like this for students. This help ...

This week in class we discussed three different types of rubrics that we could use for the rubric part of the unit plan. The first is holistic rubric, which is the most general kind. This rubric list three to five levels of performance and has broad descriptions that describe each level. One advantage of the holistic rubric is it is very easy on the teacher and creating one takes less time then the others. The biggest disadvantage is that it doesn't provide a targeted feedback to the students. This means that students are very unlikely to learn from the assignments.        The second is the analytic rubric, which breaks down the characteristics  into parts that defines which are strong and ones that could be place for improvement. The biggest advantage is that allows the student to get a better understanding on why they got a certain score. The first disadvantage is that it takes a very long time to create . The second is that most students will no...

My aha moment comes from my observation that I had with a student. I had a chance to work with student that is behind on both reading and math. The student and I were working together to review for a upcoming math test. I know that this students  was struggling with perimeter, area and composite figure. The student and I worked on a problem for finding area of a square and walked through the problem step by step. I did give this child a chance to figure out the answer. After he got the answer the teacher asked who had the answer. The student raised their hand, explained how he or she  got the answer, and got a chance to clip up. The smile on this child;s face and the funny dance that was done just brought joy to my heart. This kids aha moment made me have mine because I question if I'm going to be good teacher. In that small moment it brought me back to one if  reason why I wanted to become a teacher in the first place. The lesson that the class had on educational tech...

Engagement strategies are important in classroom because these are activities or ways to keep students engaged in their lessons, providing motivation, and could increase the achievement of students.  The first strategy I find valuable is movement because this allows students a chance to get up and move around and get back on being focused when the lesson starts again. Sometimes if a students is siting for long period of time they stop paying attention to the  lesson and this way I would use movement in my classroom.  The second is play games with students because they are fun. I believe that teachers need to show students that learning is fun and this can happen by using this strategy. While I was observing the teacher used kahoot and just to see how excited the student got made me happy. With technology there are so many apps and websites that can used.  The brain science behind engagement  is that is causes certain brain chemical...