1. Did the material you chose help to teach the specific skill or strategy effectively? Why or why not? Did you meet the goal of your objectives? Why or why not?
I thought the assigned text “The Signmarker’s Assistant” by Ted Arnold was a fairly decent choice of literature to use to teach text and graphic features. This story in particular did a nice job focusing in on identifying graphic features through the use of several signs. In the future, I would choose a different piece of literature because the story did not demonstrate very many examples of textual features. In particular the only text feature displayed was the students’ vocabulary words which were highlighted. For a future lesson, I would like to have a piece of literature that displays multiple examples of both text and graphic features.
I believe the students had a better grasp on text and graphic features when we were going over the skill as a group because they were able to correctly answer the questions I asked them. When it came time to use this skill to answer the questions on their practice sheets they seemed to struggle with what the questions were asking them to do. Overall, I believe the students had a better handle on the concept when the questions were more specific. An example of a more specific question would be how does a text feature help tell you what the story was about. I think the question asking students how “do text and picture clues help you understand what Matt does?’ was too
the correct resources or were they just adequate, was I clear on the learning objective, did I talk too
(1987) described this form of instruction as a systematic method of teaching with emphasis on proceeding in small steps, checking for student understanding, and achieving active and successful participation by all students. I have also used the strategy as reference for determining the strengths and weaknesses of my lesson. After conducting in class lesson and reviewing my video lesson multiple times, I was able to identify my strengths
How successful was the lesson? Did the students learn what you intended for them to learn? How do you know?
Being in this class gave me insight on the way that I learn. I’ve had my share of jobs along with schooling and various other learning experiences. Some good, some bad but I can honestly say that I never noticed the pattern on how I learn. Now I know I learn more by being more of a hands on person. Also utilizing my thinking and problem solving skills has helped with my growth. I also found it important to use my reflective observation too. Mostly combining different learning styles have helped me in life to understand the way I learn and the benefits that could come if I use my strengths to further my ambitions.
The author of this book did make use of literary elements to tell the story. These elements are also used in other picture books such as lines, shapes, color and speech bubble. The book is a graphic novel and dialogue takes majority of the writing in the book. The dialogical and concise style of writing of the author including the pictures
I have gained the knowledge of consequences and incentives that are effective and also ineffective to use. By gaining this knowledge I know that during my years to come of teaching I will be able to use effective consequences and incentives for my class. I have obtained the skill of keeping an organized room, through learning how to setup the room in such a way that will benefit student learning and my teaching. The text book used and classroom lectures that I brought into this artifact opened my eyes to many details that I will bring to my elementary class. What I found to be the most useful of completing this artifact was the first part in figuring out my philosophy of classroom management, I felt that this was useful because I had to think of what a good teacher was and why I will make a good teacher and how classroom management will play a role in me becoming a good
Through completing this activity, I learned more than I have with any other activity I have done thus far while earning my Education Specialist degree. I had to observe a teacher and provide constructive feedback using the Framework for Teaching. This observation included a pre-conference where the teacher told me what she wanted me to pay particular attention to. It required that I observe in real-time, rather than simply using a video where I can pause frequently. I then had to analyze the data I collected during the observation, in order to determine strengths and areas for improvement that I shared during the post-conference. The teacher was a master teacher and thought the lesson went very well. She was shocked when I had some ideas for how to improve her instruction. I mentioned that students seemed fidgety, and she could incorporate more cooperative structures to get students more active in their learning. I also thought she needed cooperative roles for students when they completed their group work, that way everyone was accountable for the work.
During this lesson, students will learn about the various text features found in nonfiction text. Furthermore, students will apply those learned text features in order to understand the purpose of each feature.
By doing Module 1 of this course I had opportunity to think about my career as a teacher. In order for me to improve learners’ learning I have to create for them appropriate environment using different teaching strategies in which every learner feels respected and safe. Learners need to know that learning has a purpose and what they are learning it is relevant to their lives. Also it is important to provide them with feedback regarding their progress on what they are trying to achieve, how far they are from the goal that was set. And how to achieve all I have to keep on trying new things and improving teaching skills. The actual teaching, classes I attended for this course gave me opportunity to better myself as a teacher. I learned about teaching principals from our teaching classes, later applied my knowledge in my actual teaching practice and also learned about teaching ideas through the web. From all these I understood that my development as a teacher should never end because teaching is a part of a life-long
“People only see what they are prepared to see” is a famous quote by Ralph Waldo. This quote emphasises the fact that the purpose of a text can often be unnoticed and misinterpreted by the viewer. Many people only have a limited world experience, and it’s the Distinctly Visual feature of a text which allows the viewer to gain a better understanding. Distinctly Visual texts use a combination of techniques to create and shape an audience’s point of view or interpretation, and visualising a text requires the responder to interpret all of the images presented.
What have you learned from the assessment, guided reading, and tutoring experiences that you would be able to apply in your future classroom?
Throughout the course I have learned about the key elements for the art forms of dance, visual art, music, and drama. I think the introduction piece of the course with the power points was very helpful for me to get the basic ideas in my mind for each art form. Then I like how we practice or explored each elements as a class. I think the end product of the groups creating work-shop lessons helped me tie in the aspects of that art form.
In general, how successful was the lesson? Did the students learn what you intended for them to learn? How do you know?
This course has affected my development as a student in many ways. It has taught me the importance of being stress free. I have learned that using the time and stress management tools and strategies has helped me get closer to my goals. Achieving my goals depends mainly on me and being less stressful. Time and stress management go hand to hand and one doesn’t work without the other. I learned to become better at time management. This has allowed me to get more important task done and put off the not so important ones. This course has prepared me very well for my academic success. It has taught me about my learning styles and what works best for me. Although I’m a visual/ auditory learner, I sometimes find myself wanting to take things hands on. These are some of the things that has affected me in my development as a student.
The main skill I focused on was vocabulary specifically story elements of fairytales. I printed out the student’s the element they were to look with a picture so that they could see the words and how it is spelled while also relating it to the picture. Before I began to read, I had the students explain to me what