Potluck Reflection

 WHAT?

As a group we were able to present different types of strategies and activities to help readers comprehend what they are reading across all subjects. USing a powerpoint and presenting the strategies that we had taken from the chapter. Students use reading across multiple subject areas and having them grow upon their ability to comprehend is what we wanted to help educate other TC’s. Using a variety of questions throughout the presentation allowed for presenters to see if the group was able to take away and retain areas and strategies to use and grow upon to help build students with proficient comprehension skills. 

SO WHAT? 

Through this experience I learned more about the subject that I had known before. Students are reading information off of pages almost daily in school but what are they really retaining. Through this chapter I was able to grow upon this thought and see that within history reading comprehension is crucial for students to be proficient in. Students may be great readers but retaining that information to use in future activities or experiences may not be one of the students strong points. Students need to be able to take what they are reading and save the important information mentally. I AM able to see how semantic mapping is a great way for building upon reading comprehension. This is also a great strategy to use in history. 

NOW WHAT?

Being able to present in front of other future educators was a great feeling because as a group we are helping one another. It is great to learn from our peers and hear another person going through the same process as myself break down information. I plan to continue to be a sponge and grow from other peers who are willing to continue to pass along useful information. I am happy to be a part of such a welcoming community of future educators where using each other is such a great tool to build upon ourselves. 

Lesson 6 Reflection

 WHAT?

In our last lesson we started off by going over a review of last week's lesson. We had the students each go around and say one thing that they learned, this showed us that the students absorbed  the information given. In this lesson we focused on the global goal of keeping the water clean of the country. We gave students a word wall with these 5 words so they could better understand them and define them, reduce reuse, recycle fishery and reservoir. We had the students listen to TCs read a Ukrainian book to understand more of the global goal and vocabulary of Ukraine. While reading the sections we pointed out key facts that the students could comprehend. The students watched a reuse reduce recycle video to better understand Ukraines problem and how important it is to recycle.The students were given an interactive activity with a bag of paper cut fish with trash in it. The objective was for the students to clean the bags by taking out the trash and write on their paper a solution on how Ukraine can fix this problem as well as why life in the water is so important to the country. The students met the goal of G 4 (3-4) – 1a. Students explain how humans depend on their environment by a. identifying how needs can be met by the environment (e.g., we grow food to eat.). The students ended off the lesson with a kahoot on recycling and were very excited to do it. We ended off with a wrap around where the students told us what they have learned about Ukraine throughout the lesson.

SO WHAT?

From this lesson I learned that using technology such as an educational game at the end of a lesson is a great way to get students to work hard and see what information they retain. Students loved this activity and it went great. TC’s will from now on in future lessons will use this activity because it also shows TC’s where students struggle as well. As well it can be used as an assessment because it covered all the topics that were covered throughout the lesson as a whole. All together being able to have an activity that students love and give feedback to teachers is a great addition to the lesson. 

NOW WHAT?

I plan to use this strategy of allowing students to educational games in the future. Seeing how well this lesson went and how the students were fully immersed within our teaching pushes me to continue to create great lessons for these great students. Students were advised through the schedule that there would be a game at the end and I believe students really paid attention and grasped the information. Seeing students enjoy a lesson really makes me happy to see. I plan to continue to grow and become the best educator possible for my future students.