Reflection of Class on 3/30/09

Monday night's class started with Bekir giving a presentation about writing and how it can be taught. He had 3 different groups come up with different pre, during, and post writing activities.

Chris then presented and broke us into partners and we had to demonstrate the different activities presented in the Peanut Butter book. I was so excited because I got the life mural, which I would LOVE to do in a classroom. I think it would work really well to activate the intrinsic motivation, background knowledge and the desire to expand vocabulary. The reason I feel so strongly about the activity and the writing opportunities it presents because people simply want to "tell their story". When students are presented with an opportunity to explain where they have come from, they want to tell it and as a future teacher I would want to hear it.

We then broke into groups to view our videos of us teaching. I spent some of the time having Thea help me fix my paper, as it seems I had it in the wrong lay out. Chris and Thea liked the students in my video and they gave me some really good feedback.

I think it would be helpful to sit as a class and discuss our teacher observations. I find that I had a lot of questions and there was no where to address them. I also learned a lot and again I did not have anyone to bounce ideas off of. I hope we talk about our observations a little next week.