Professional Documents
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May 6, 2010
The fifth quality indicator for a pre-service teacher is to use a variety of
During this course I worked with two other middle school math pre-
incorporated into our final project, the literacy project. The literacy project
included the following information: alternative text list, vocabulary word sort,
alternative text and then using them to create different learning strategies;
not only was I able to meet the GLE’s for a middle school math class but I
was able to meet the GLE’s for language arts as well. I met the first
read. But I had this mental block that I was going to school to teach math
and how to properly act as a successful citizen, not to teach anything else.
After this course I realized that it is not only my responsibility to teach math
Growing up I knew what graphic organizers were, and I knew that they
were very helpful in language arts and science classes. But now after this
course I realize that I can use graphic organizers in my classroom. I can also
read a book to help show how math is applicable to real life, helping students
One of my favorite chapters that we studied was how to take and make
a very important tool when it came to teaching. I had no idea the variety of
notes that a student could take and it never occurred to me that some
students will need to be taught how to take notes properly. Now that my
eyes are opened to this challenge I will make sure to teach my students how
to take good notes, and how to use those notes to study and be successful
on exams.
When helping to create our lessons and artifacts for the literacy project
playing on the internet all at the same time. Regardless of what content a
student in today’s society. Many students, even those who prefer not to
read, will enjoy reading electronically. Not only did I have to read Milkweed
in a non-traditional way, but then my response and reflection of the book had
After the completion of the book we were then asked to create an electronic
response of the book. We were allowed to work with partners; my partners
Blogging was not a challenge for me; however, when asked to respond
electronically, I became a little bit nervous. At the end of creating the Glog I
was incredibly impressed with the free online program and plan on using the
learning tool in my classroom whenever possible. Not only will the students
enjoy ‘playing’ and creating something on the computer, but they will be
having so much fun and will be so engaged that they won’t realize they are
While creating a blog and taking notes in different styles, I was able to
style of notes, what we were studying in class, the way we responded, and
takes an open mind and a variety of methods to help teach students with a