Professional Reflection

Lisett Romero
EDU512

Professional Reflection
Provide a thorough answer for each question.
1.
Select one Social ● One social studies strategy that can be used to extend social studies knowledge is
Studies Strategy
from your text and
Socratic Seminar. In this strategy, students read text deeply and analyze meanings
explain how it can of important ideas in texts. Through reading text critically, students engage in
be used to: metacognitive thinking and share knowledge with classmates about social studies.
● Extend social ● Socratic seminar extends literacy learning as students learn how to construct
studies
knowledge,
reasoning for their thoughts or ideas. When students speak their opinion about a
social studies topic, they use textual evidence from the text to expand on his/her
● Extend literacy thinking. This strategy trains students to cite and provide evidence in research they
learning conduct.
● Engage
students at a
● This strategy engages students in a deeper level since they have an opportunity to
deeper level of question the author’s purpose and tone. In socratic seminar students analyze a
learning thought provoking sentence and deconstruct it to find the deeper meaning. Students
look at vocabulary and context clues to discover the true message of a literary text.
Also, through student led discussion, students take charge of the conversation and
take turns sharing their ideas. When students share their thought process and ideas,
classmates engage in deep thinking.

2. ● One literacy strategy that can help students extend their social studies knowledge is
Select one Literacy assigning close reading work. Close reading extends students social studies
Strategy from your
text and explain
knowledge since the student re-reads text multiple times to analyze the deeper
how it can be used meaning of an event or idea. Furthermore, students learn content more efficiently
to: since students write notes on the topics they read. When students write notes they
engage in metacognitive thinking and grasp important information to retain.
● Extend social
studies
knowledge,

● Extend literacy ● Students extend literacy learning because close reading improves students writing.
learning When students close read, they gather evidence and supportive details about the
topic they are reading. By analyzing evidence, the student practices how to support
● Engage
students at a
his/her opinions and ideas in writing. Close reading improves students
deeper level of comprehension of text since they deconstruct vocabulary.
learning.

● Close reading engages student in deeper level of thinking because they understand
the author’s thoughts in a different way by analyzing words closely. The student
realizes the authors true purpose and message for the audience when they
deconstruct the text by parts.
3. ● One strategy teachers can use to provide immediate feedback to students is using
Feedback: Select 2 rubrics. Rubrics give feedback since they list the requirements for an assignment
strategies for
providing
and students get the opportunity to learn from their errors. Rubrics are useful since
immediate feedback they assess if learning happened.
on learning from
any of your texts.
Provide evidence ● Exit tickets are another form of informal feedback. Teachers can assign an exit
that it is research
based.
pass after a lesson to see if students understood the lesson. Thus a teacher can
evaluate her teaching and decide what strategies she will use next as well what she
will be covering the next day to reinforce students comprehension. This type of
informative assessment is beneficial for students since it measures their learning
through every step, versus summative assessments. When teachers assess student
after each lesson it prevents students from falling behind.