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3015 Commentary
3015 Commentary
a. What grade/content
I taught in a two 6th and 7th grade Career Pathway Classes.
3. Explain how this lesson helps your students make connections a. Connect to self
By understanding and knowing the different learning styles, students are able to get an idea about which learning style they use. This can help students learn more about who they are and what helps them learn.
c. Connect to world
When students begin getting jobs and developing relationships with others, knowing how a person learns can benefit them greatly. When individuals are able to teach someone in their own learning style they are developing a skill that will help them educate others.
4. Describe what you know about the students and the learning challenges associated with this class (keep in mind the contextual factors) a. Explain the variety of needs in this class
In the classes I observed, and taught my lesson, I noticed that the majority of the students seemed to be on the same learning level. There were always about 2 students that seemed
Commentary Dianna Caudell Dr. Bellon MGED 3015 12/6/13 to get the material faster than the rest of the class, along with students that had a difficult time understanding the material. The majority of the students that had a hard time understanding the lessons were either mentally handicapped or could not speak English fluently. During my lesson this did not seemed to really impact the kids as far as the different learning levels in the classroom because the majority of the class consisted of their having to work as a team to come up with the correct answers. They had to help each other out and explain the reasoning behind their answers.
5. Describe the students prior learning (related to this lesson) as determined by your preassessment a. Explain how your pre-assessment informed your choice of content vocabulary
The teacher I observed asked that I teach learning styles to her students. This narrowed down which vocabulary I taught the students. The teacher already had a power point with the words that needed to be taught. I took her power point and tweaked it to make it my own and then added a few extra content vocabulary words to introduce to the students, but I didnt teach those extra words in depth.
6. Identify one example of Academic Language that you taught in this lesson a. Describe a key learning task from your lesson plan that introduced this word (taskrelated)
The key learning task I used for my lesson plan to introduce the word Learning Styles was when I asked my students the question have you ever failed a test and why. The students were asked not to blurt out whether they had ever failed something but wither why someone might fail. I then began explaining that a student might fail something not
Commentary Dianna Caudell Dr. Bellon MGED 3015 12/6/13 because they are stupid or dumb but because the material was not taught in a way they could understand it. It was not taught in their learning style.
b. Describe a key learning task from your lesson plan that allowed our student to practice this AL related task
The students were able to practice learning styles through the game. They listened to the question I asked them and had to answer (as a group) as to what kind of learning style it was.
7. Describe the students learning (related to this lesson) as determined by your post-assessment a. Explain how your post-assessment provides direct evidence of learning
The online posttest I gave showed that the majority of the students learned something from the lesson I taught. The class average was higher than it was for the pretest.
b. Explain how your post-assessment will impact your future teaching in this classroom (pretend)
Since the post-test indicated positive results, I will do this lesson again. Helping a student discover his/her learning style would be an appropriate lesson in any subject I teach.