Lesson 9 reflection

• A reflection of your process to learn it, and what you would change to learn more/better,
• This week it was really interesting to be learning the different ways to teach materials either with co-teaching or simply teaching people a new skill. I think I would have tried a variety of different teaching methods to learn what was most effective.
• What experience or resource helped you learn the most,
• I appreciated the experiences were we had to try to figure out the different co-teaching methods.
• How well prepared are you for applying what you learned in the future,
• I definitely feel that I am more understanding of not only how important it is to differentiate instruction but also to realize that different students prefer different methods of learning.
• How well did your peers learn and what did you do to help them learn more.
  My peers did really well to understand the material. I helped them through suggesting ideas and contributing in group discussions.

Reflection: Lesson 10

• A reflection of your process to learn it, and what you would change to learn more/better,
• This week I truly enjoyed using the power points (jeopardy games to learn the material) It was incredibly useful because then I felt that I was really learning the material and understanding it rather than just memorizing it. I would have spaced out my studying over a series of days instead of on only a couple days because that way each day my knowledge could've been built upon my previous knowledge.
• What experience or resource helped you learn the most,
• Truly the Jeopardy games by far helped me to learn the most. I went through them over and over until I understood and knew each answer. This was very useful and helped me to learn.
• How well prepared are you for applying what you learned in the future,
• I feel like I am a lot more prepared to apply what I learned especially in terms of recognizing abuse and notifying officials.
• How well did your peers learn and what did you do to help them learn more.
• I know there were other people who were studying for the test, and I encouraged them to use the jeopardy game because I was enjoying using it as a study guide.

Abuse, Poverty and other conditions Lesson 8 reflection

Write a blog entry .... An overview of what you learned,

• A reflection of your process to learn it, and what you would change to learn more/better,
• I definitely really thought that this week had a lot of good learning opportunities. I did my best to really understand the chapter. I would have done better at taking good notes.
• What experience or resource helped you learn the most,
• I liked the simulation of being in poverty. I feel that it really helped us to recognize that even if families try their best to support their families that sometimes they can fall short. Something else it taught me is that parents will naturally still want to help their children have the simple pleasures of life.
• How well prepared are you for applying what you learned in the future,
• I really liked the video shown of the school district, I feel that it helped me recognize what I could do to make a difference in the future.
• How well did your peers learn and what did you do to help them learn more.
• I felt like my peers did really well to prepare for the class as well as be involved. I did the simulation with a partner and we discussed it as a group. I helped by sharing my thought and opinions, as well as the information I knew on the subject.

Teaching experience: Other Health Impairments

• How do you feel about your lesson delivery and why? Was it effective, why or why not? 

I feel really good about our lesson. I feel that we both really understood the topic and that we did our best to help the class learn it. We also included activities, case studies and had everyone involved. Something that we also did really well was to use real life circumstances to help the class know how they would react as teachers, and what they could do to help their students

• What evidence do you have (while delivering your lesson) of effective student engagement? 
• Part of the evidence we had was that we had many different learning opportunities that required each group to discuss, some of which required that the group members alternate in reading case studies, overall causing everyone to participate. Each group also had to share with the class what their group discussed and decided on. 

• If you were to teach this lesson by yourself, not in a group, what would you change and why? 

If I were to do this by myself I actually don't think I would change very much, there was only two of us so it allowed us both to share all our ideas and to work together. This meant that everything I wanted to do and would have done by myself was done in our group presentation.  

• What could have been an area of improvement in your teaching? 

Something that I realized could have been better about our teaching was to give more background information about the topics before doing the activities. We had decided that the case studies would have been solved too easily without effort if we had explained each category first but because we did the activities first people may have felt more confused.  

• Based on the criteria for the “Teaching Experience” in the above instructions, would you give your group a 0, 5 or a 10?  Why?  AND would you give yourself a 0, 5 or a 10?  Why? 
• I would absolutely give our group a 10 and I would give myself a 10 because the teaching we did was very thorough, interesting, informative and involving. We spent a lot of time making sure that we "taught" the class instead of just "presented". We really did use teaching everyone and kept it interesting. Through the use of our case studies and different activities we had people really thinking and working as a group. I think this was a good method because it made people really get involved to try to learn the material. Also as a side note; our slides were very engaging with pictures and information.