For my book talk, I think I could have been a little more prepared. I realized after I got my feedback on it that I did do a lot of reading from the handout that I had and that I should have probably created some sort of powerpoint to go off of so it was more interactive with the other kids in the class. Other than that, I think that my book talk was well prepared and well thought out.
For my mini lesson, I felt like I could have improved a lot. I felt really unprepared. I hadn't practiced the lesson, and so I ended up winging most of it time wise and so I felt really unprepared throughout the whole time. If I had to do it again, I would make sure to practice my lesson like how I do for my practicum lessons. I ended up only using 15/20 minutes of my time. I think that I could have used that time to have the students read the poem out loud before they watched the video, since that was one of the ways the other students had suggested to improve.
For my unit plan, I put in an unbelievable amount of work. Literally all quarter, I spent every moment of my free time working on it and developing my ideas. I think that I did a really good job on it. The only category that I feel like I struggled with was the introductory overview. The requirement was to write 3-5 pages and I wrote two and then ran out of what I thought I needed to say.
We covered many theories throughout the class. A few of the parts that really stood out to me were the different graphic organizers that could be used in the classroom as well as the part about including pop culture into the classroom. I think that these are really important parts about reaching out to kids. I think that by being required to include some sort of popular culture into our mini lesson was important and a good way to practice including it. I think that it is important to get used to using these sorts of things in our classroom and so I think that including it in the unit plan would be a good idea as well.
By participating in this, I was able to learn a lot about myself as an educator. We were provided multiple times to sit down and reflect about each time we read about something and reflect each time we did an assignment, which helped me to reflect on my work and improve each time before beginning another task. That was something that I was able to apply to my work in this class, as well as my work that was being completed for my practicum and other classes.
For my mini lesson, I felt like I could have improved a lot. I felt really unprepared. I hadn't practiced the lesson, and so I ended up winging most of it time wise and so I felt really unprepared throughout the whole time. If I had to do it again, I would make sure to practice my lesson like how I do for my practicum lessons. I ended up only using 15/20 minutes of my time. I think that I could have used that time to have the students read the poem out loud before they watched the video, since that was one of the ways the other students had suggested to improve.
For my unit plan, I put in an unbelievable amount of work. Literally all quarter, I spent every moment of my free time working on it and developing my ideas. I think that I did a really good job on it. The only category that I feel like I struggled with was the introductory overview. The requirement was to write 3-5 pages and I wrote two and then ran out of what I thought I needed to say.
We covered many theories throughout the class. A few of the parts that really stood out to me were the different graphic organizers that could be used in the classroom as well as the part about including pop culture into the classroom. I think that these are really important parts about reaching out to kids. I think that by being required to include some sort of popular culture into our mini lesson was important and a good way to practice including it. I think that it is important to get used to using these sorts of things in our classroom and so I think that including it in the unit plan would be a good idea as well.
By participating in this, I was able to learn a lot about myself as an educator. We were provided multiple times to sit down and reflect about each time we read about something and reflect each time we did an assignment, which helped me to reflect on my work and improve each time before beginning another task. That was something that I was able to apply to my work in this class, as well as my work that was being completed for my practicum and other classes.
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