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I Had No Other Experience With Documentation Panels

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Prior to this class, I had no other experience with documentation panels. This was a very intriguing new experience because it allows pre service teachers and their peers to view weeks of their work within one project. This is extremely beneficial for our future because not only are we getting practice in for full time student teaching, but we are also learning more through the inquiry ourselves. After the first day of lesson planning and teaching it is clear to say there is a difference between talking about teaching a lesson and actually doing the teaching of a lesson. The biggest takeaway I had from this experience was to have multiple back up plans. It is almost impossible to think of all the different directions students might translate the lesson being taught. This being true, teachers need to be able to address and engage that student in their translation to make sure the conceptualized information taught is turned into a cognitive learning experience. In order to make a backup plan possible, we need to think ahead and incorporate that into the lesson plan. I have found it helpful that it is better to over-plan, than to under-plan. I believe this to be true because while doing our document panel, our over planning allowed us to create a steady path and direction that boosted student knowledge. It also gave us option for our documentation panel because we had so many different elements we could choose from that demonstrated how well students were learning and

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