Me Young Hong #2 reflection

After teaching each lesson, write a Book Club Blog Posting discussing the following:

·         What students learned and which students struggled with the lesson. 

·         What are alternate reads of your students’ performance or products?

·         What did you learn about your students’ literacy practices that extend beyond your objectives?

·         When and how will you re-teach the material to students who need additional support?

·         If you were to teach this same lesson again, what would you do differently and how do you think the changes would improve students’ learning?

What did you learn so far about implementing your ‘core practice’ and what do you need to do to continue your professional learning?

 

Based on a How To book, students learned how to write things in order and list steps such as fist, next and last. Most of students who are in higher level in literacy knew what they are doing and actually learned. On the other hand, for those who struggle in literacy seemed to have hard time in my lesson; they were not able to follow all the directions and steps as well. Writing was involved a lot in this lesson that some of the students had difficulties in copying/ writing words down.

Students are following steps and writing the steps down on their papers to help them understand better. I showed my own writings as an example; therefore, students could write things using my sample writing. Also, we used same list using same steps, first, next and last, for everyone in order to minimize the confusion. 

I learned that students can create their own writing based on their reading. Some of them even used their own words to write sentences. However, there were some other students who really had hard time writing and reading. I already knew that there was a huge gap among students’ reading level, however, I actually was able to observe how they evaluate their reading and create their own writing as well.

We do not plan to re-teach the material since everyone seemed to understand which word to put first, next and last even if they did not finish all their writings. Also, we will be practicing writing the steps several times in future lessons that we do not need to re-teach the same material for students who need additional support.

I would let students to use their own words when writing the steps. The main objective was to teach how to write things in order with first, next and last steps; however, students seemed to focus on the words and spellings from sentences too much that they did not exactly get to learn why steps are important to learn. Therefore, instead of copying sentences word by word, I would ask them to use their own words after they copy first, next and last.

I would like for them to be involved in more writing; I would like to challenge them more to come up with new How To books. Since we will be making How To books using their own words, I would like to observe more writing skills to implement my ‘core practice.’