Thursday, April 7, 2011

Reflection on Blogger

My partner and my seminar facilitator have helped me expand my ideas some what farther by commenting on my blogs. Even though over this year the blog has given me a few ideas to use in the classroom, overall I have not gotten a lot out of the experience. Maybe as we do more blogging I will continue to get more information out of the experience. I hope that I will gather more ideas and be open to more ideas by using this blog. Do you think that it is possible that after another year of blogging I may recieve more from these blogs?

Thursday, March 10, 2011

My progress with my learning goals is mostly obersavtions. I have seen some classroom management skills but I have not been able to practice them any. I have seen ways to handle children with disabilities that can get violent. Personally I have only delt with a few girls that do not listen to subsititutes. My PDS plan has been very helpful. The only changes I have made are in the order I do some things. It has been easier to do somethings when ever there is extra time and the people I need to observe have time. It has kept me on track to visually see what is needed to still be completely and how long I have left to complete it.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Digital Storytelling

One thing in my PDS that I have noticed this semester is that my mentor teacher has decided to make a science newspaper. Her class will give the newspaper to all the other students in the school. The newspaper will have their classes science projects in it. She is assigning her students to be reporters. I believe this will be a great way to track their writing skills and their learning skills through out the semester. It could be a go story also. This can be made a good story by relating to the listeners likes and wants.

Using images, audio,videos, and text might enhance my story telling becuse it helps relate to all learners. Students have different interest and putting all of them into one story telling can increase their interest in the story.