Week 8- Last Night 6-20-18

Last week's presentations were great. I have learned so many new ideas from what everyone has shared through out the whole entirety of the course and through all of the lesson presentations. Question number five on our unit presentations asked what the most important thing was that we learned about teaching Language Arts and how we will apply this in our future unit writings. I responded; that I learned about teaching Language Arts this semester; was the actual techniques of teaching Language Arts. I came into this class not feeling confident about creating lessons for Language Arts, even though I loved Language Arts. Now, through everyone sharing thoughts in the classroom and ideas; I feel like I have a lot more tools to use. I learned some about a “Scope and Sequence”; which I had never heard of before. I got a little more experience in how to organize the order of lessons when there is so much content that has to be covered throughout the school year. I also learned a few other ways to assess the students. Overall, through this and other classes; I have learned better ways of assessing students than just giving out worksheets and/or tests all the time. Which, is something I was never wanting to do anyway; but now have better ways to assess them. I will definitely be using some of these lesson organizational techniques and different assessment activities in my future classroom. I will also keep these things in mind when preparing future units. I also was going to give kudos to my fellow classmates in my blog group; about their presentation questions tonight. I liked how Sandra focused on critical thinking and getting the students used to writing for their selves; focusing on not committing plagiarism. This is important for students to practice as early as possible. Next, Courtney had question four and clarified really well, that the scope and sequence is to be used as an overview design for effective teaching. It outlines the order things should be taught. This makes sense to me and I am glad she shared this. Kevin went next and had a really good idea in incorporating moral values into his unit. I like that he did this through heroes. I could have done this as well; but with fables or maybe some fairy tales. Christina Massman was the last one to go out of my group. I really liked that she asked questions that activated the student's critical thinking and brought them to the level of evaluating. I thought everyone did a great job tonight and I really liked these questions either way; whether we would have done unit presentations or not. I just really liked how these questions activated my critical thinking skills. This has been a busy; but really great class. Thank you guys.