Lesson Reflection Paper

There are many different types of attachments that I have observed in the Magnolia classroom. Some are attachments to the children’s personal belongings and others are attachments to people, such as the teachers. Growing out of these attachments is good for the children’s social-emotional development.

When I arrived to Dr. Singleton’s Identity, Cultures, and Democracy class in September, I had no idea what importance the name of the course held in my life. Now, nearly completed the course, I see the importance of the course’s title and how impactful each word is to me. The two terms that were used most often throughout the semester were “American Dream” and “Culture”. After extensive conversations regarding the American Dream and Culture, I have a new perspective for each that will forever serve me well on my journey through college and life in general. The definition of the American Dream mentioned in class is the idea that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work,

Once, in fifth grade, my teacher, let's just call her Ms. A, for some reason, chose me as valedictorian of my class. I honestly don't know why though. Sure I was really nice to everyone and I had “pretty good (but not perfect)” grades in most subjects but I was one of the quietest people in the class. At first, I didn't want anything to do with it because being valedictorian meant giving a huge speech in front of the principal, assistant principals, fellow fifth graders, family, and siblings in the school. I had never spoken or given a speech in front of a small class before, let alone a huge crowd! If you had put me on a stage with no rehearsal or anything, I'd either freeze or hide behind the curtains. The most I’d ever done before was some fun dance performances in the yearly concerts, a talent show that I joined that year with my friends, and Dance Club which I was chosen for some random reason. But anyway, Ms. A made me write a page long speech, which I was okay with since I like writing. Afterwards, she made me go out to the hall to read my speech to a small group of classmates. I can't remind who they were exactly but I know that one of them was my good friend, Joy. I didn't really know them all that well so the second I got outside I was super scared and made up some excuse to use the bathroom (which I did do it wasn't a complete excuse). I was taking my time washing my hands so when I finally left the bathroom, Joy was about to come in. She said something

We can all image the same things when we think of learning; a group of students that are sitting in a classroom, being taught by a teacher or professor. This is true for most instances of learning, but when we take a closer look, we can see many different things taking places in the various classrooms across the education system. Three pictures have been presented, showcasing visual learning, kinesthetic learning (hands on learning), and auditory learning. They each have the same general setting, but as we zoom in on the specifics, a lot is revealed that we may not realize is a factor in learning. The similarities of the pictures, the differences of the pictures, and the norms that the pictures showcase all affect the knowledge that the students gain from the styles of learning shown.

Throughout the courses of ELED 4311 and ELED 4312, my knowledge of science had definitely changed in a positive way from the beginning of the course up until now. With the help and guidance from Dr. Wong, Professor Gokus, and Professor Donze, I was exposed to a variety of activities that I would like to incorporate into my future classroom. Not only will I be teaching science, but I can also collaborate it with other subjects such as math, reading, writing, and social studies.

The teacher, Ms. Sullivan, featured in this video is a third grade teacher at an elementary school where English language learners (ELLs) make up approximately 85 percent of the student population. The majority of the third graders she teaches are of Asian, African American, and Hispanic ethnicities and seem to be in the intermediate stages of English language proficiency. In the video lesson, Ms. Sullivan presents a whole group math content lesson to help her students develop math vocabulary related to reading a thermometer

The lesson was and remains the basic form of the organization of the educational process. The essence of the lesson is the organization by the teacher of a diverse work of students in the assimilation of new knowledge, skills, and development. A modern lesson in math is a lesson in which the teacher skillfully uses all possible forms of organizing the cognitive activity of students. My cooperating teacher is a perfect example of it.

Briefly describe what you planned to do and explain if you changed anything along the way (flexibility is key!!)

Drama, as Heatchote ( Wagner, 1999) put it, is not special . It is something that people do everyday for different purposes , in a complex process that involve their emotion, imaginations, and intelligence. People recreate ( re-live) a past event or visualize ( pre-live) an upcoming role that they have to cope with . If it does not happen visually for other people to see, then it may occur only in our minds . One close example of this mental imaging activity is the act of lesson planning by teachers. When planning a lesson I often imagine what I will do in a class to make sure that I would do it properly . I will think how to begin : what ice breakers I will use to build up a case and how I will deliver them. As I think of core activities to have in a class, my mind also wonders about what jokes I will tell when students show signs of boredom and how I will deliver them. At times, my mind brought me to the memories of past incidents or successful teaching events and have all them mashed up with the plan. Soon as I have them organized, these staged plans are stored on writing forms , but many of them are just stored in my memory.

Over the last sixteen weeks I have grown in so many ways that have affected my view on education today. Our world and education today is much different than what it was in the past. I think a major misconception about teaching is that we just teach curriculum, however, teachers serve many different roles in their classrooms and schools. These roles are created because of many different factors, such as sociometric status, poverty levels, and school systems. As we learned in our class, students react to these different factors in many ways and these are main reasons that will affect a classroom. In this essay, I will be discussing our navigations through the social justice issues and other factors that classrooms face by talking about the key points of our class throughout the semester.

Previously teaching was something that teachers did. The role of teachers was known to be the center of the classroom, they were expected to know everything about a subject matter and be able to explain it well to students. The role of the students was to learn by listening, practicing and working hard. We now know that teaching and learning are closely related. By understanding the relationship of teaching and learning we can understand the concept of Mathematizing. Mathematizing is the process of constructing meaning. This is accomplished by letting students develop their own strategies and questions and letting them explore them through classroom discussion with their peers. (Young Mathematicians at work) This can also be accomplished by allowing students to use real world examples to help deepen their understanding of the concepts.My understanding of this topic has evolved over this course I was always viewed teachers as the know it all of the classroom and the students roll was to retain as much as possible because they were going to need to use it on a test in the future. Learning the new concept of mathematizing I recognize that a teacher must also act as a facilitator of the classroom. Allowing students to think freely make mistakes and make sense of problems and concepts on their own. While also leaving space for the students to teach the teacher or help the teacher understand what they are thinking and how they came to their answer.

From my years in elementary school, middle school, and now high school, I have had many different teachers who have an impact on my life and my educational growth. There's one teacher though, who went above and beyond any other teacher I have had and that's why she had such a great impact on my learning ability.

During my visits to Metzler elementary, I was able to observe all the different grade levels and I was fortunate enough to be able to observe eight different teachers, which helped me better understand and see the different ways I could teach the children. While observing, I really enjoyed and gathered information that I feel make good lessons from two different teachers, which were the fifth and fourth grade teachers.

ENDS 101 class was drastically different from my expectation. I came from a background of great involvement in Robotics and portray great interests in Engineering. The title of Design Process misguided me into thinking about the learning of traditional design process engineers take to approach problem solving. Through each lessons, I said to myself that I am physically being in the most realistically useful and most applicable class in the University. Never did I thought I will be taking a class that provokes creativity, enhance leadership, and develop good team working skills and other aspects that affect being a collaborative member, or a leader. Several times, professor Vanegas’ and professor Billingsley’s

Walking into the first two weeks of the EDU program I desired to experience what it would be like to be a future educator and have a grasp of how to help the molding of our youth and giving them the possibility to become future leaders. Doctor dresser was able to bring in a Concordia alumni who had just begun to experience his professional education, career and is teaching multiple different grade levels as a young teacher. When he first walked into the classroom my first impressions were that unfortunately he looked very inexperienced and unsure of what was to be expected of the lecture I thought to myself in the position of a younger student in his classroom this is a person I would not take seriously. He then proceeded to communicate