Miah Lee

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SMART Notebook Reflection

Presenting the Materials Interactively opened my eyes to the range of creativity in lesson

planning and instruction. Utilizing the SMART notebook into lesson preparation and instruction

altered my perception in a positive way of how students learn in classrooms. It is very engaging,

fun, and interactive for all students to participate.

The lesson I designed is for ESL, emerging level of fourth graders. This lesson is to

evaluate their skills in comprehension, concepts, and events. They will first read the classic short

story of Cinderella. Then, they will work in pairs to fill out a graphic organizer of a story map to

evaluate their understanding of the story. After their story map, the students will be able to

collaborate with each other to complete the story in the proper sequence order. Finally, the

students will write a sentence or two for each question in ways they can help Cinderella using

their imaginary wand. My goal for this lesson is to determine the language acquisition my

students may vary and to demonstrate their knowledge of understanding. In doing so, a lot of

images of graphic organizers would have to be implemented for this instruction to work.

Students learn best through visual representations. I believe all tools in the SMART are

very pragmatic and fun. The only device I found challenging was the object animation. I could

not quite get the speed of the disappearing of images right. However, once I did, I thought it

would be perfect to implement when tapping into students' prior knowledge of a topic. Or to use

a hypothesis of any sort. Table of cell shades and window shades would be perfect to reveal

sight words or answers for any subject. The creative pen and infinite cloner would be fun for

students and teachers to use on a daily basis. Inserting videos and images would be great for

visual representations to demonstrate student's understanding of a concept further.