Blog III_SS2018

Think reflectively about the teaching slice that you created and presented in class. To that end, write a blog (250-300 words approx.) that responds to the following key questions:

What aspects of the lesson went well? Which aspects did not go so well? What do you think the students took away from this lesson? Are there any unanticipated consequences? How did the students interact with each other and with you? Were the objectives of the lesson achieved? What did the class and individual students learn today? Where should the lesson begin for the following class? Are there other ways to teach or re-teach this lesson or some part of it?

Watch out! In order to earn full credit for this blog, you must also leave at least two comments (50-100 words each) on your peers’ posts. Please take the time to read what they wrote – you’ll find that you often have similar reactions to the teaching experience, and can help one another a great deal through this first semester!

Deadlines:

For personal blog: Thursday, April 27, 2018, 11:59 p.m.

For two comments: Thursday, May 4, 2018, 11:59 p.m.

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Permalink Reply by Margarita Mejia-Ramos on May 3, 2018 at 12:22pm

Hello Leslie,

Overall the presentation was excellent. The primary goal of the lesson was to teach students how to describe their partners suitably. Something that educators know is that allowing the students to work with a partner is an excellent way for them to feel connected with their peers. When making an activity that is personal, there will always be positive reactions from the students. While everything went as one planned, both educators should be more aware of the new vocabulary that they are presenting to the students, for some of them might use it differently.

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Permalink Reply by Gloria Payne on April 28, 2018 at 8:08am

During this project, my group members and I sought out on working on a listening activity. This listening activity that was planned for the class on Friday, was heavily criticized. Despite that, we had presented to the best of our expertise. One aspect that I personally believed went well was related to the five C’s. Specifically, that our student audience was able to understand how the five C’s were incorporated into our lesson. The importance of this is clearly due to its connection to our class model. Students were able to relate to the lesson due to our choice of music. By choosing a song that most people know they were able to remain interested in the lesson as a whole. We as teachers need to research more to verify what type of content that is being brought into the classroom. Although we understand the criticisms, overall the content clearly piqued the interest of the students. In this listening activity, the students were able to connect with the music due to the fact that they had heard it on the radio. Through this method of teaching, educators will be able to improve and expand upon their teaching style through mistakes and different experiences. By pairing the 5 c’s in our lesson students seem absorbed and interested. In closing, I will apply the lessons I learned during this project to future lessons. By modifying the choice of examples brought into the classroom as to avoid triggering some individual’s sensitive nature in class. (251 words)

Permalink Reply by Katheryn Gutierrez on April 30, 2018 at 3:53pm

The micro teaching lesson was about speaking. My partner and I presented the lesson starting with the date and some pictures it was introduced implicitly. After that we had someone volunteer and read the date for us then as a class participate and describe each character that was presented to them. This was set as an example for them to get the class ready for the activity which was to have the students engage in conversation by putting them in groups of two so that everyone can practice utilizing the target language for the first level of Spanish with their peers. The topic we chose for the activity was physical and personality descriptions of your partner we thought this would be a good topic for students to get engaged in conversation in the class. Some aspects of the micro teaching that went well was the timing we were able to cover everything in the time frame that we were given. We also accomplished the objective of speaking Spanish using descriptions and the key terms. Some of the negative aspects of the lesson which my classmates pointed out is the grammatical errors in the slides. As future educators, we need to be cautious not to present something ungrammatically incorrect because we would not want the students to grasp the wrong information. If I were to re-teach some parts of the lesson I would make sure that my slides would be grammatically correct without any typos so that students do not get confused.(251words)

Permalink Reply by Margarita Mejia-Ramos on May 3, 2018 at 12:21pm

Hi Katherine,

The presentation was excellent. It was full of excitement, and it was very personal to the students. The primary goal was for the pupils to be able to describe their classmate with vocabulary that included physical and personality descriptions. As an educator one can see that some of the five C’s are involved. This is very important because one will always want to make those connections. The lesson as done explicitly, fortunately, the pupils were very intriguing with the activity. All educators must be careful of the grammatical errors that might appear in the presentations or exercises; therefore, it is essential for everyone to always triple check ones' work before presenting it.

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