Blog Journal 3
Blog Journal 3
7 February 2019
Putting on my 3rd grade teacher hat, I would feel confident in teaching many of the standards, such as LAFS.3.W.2.6: students must use technology to produce and publish writing (using skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others, and LAFS.3.SL.2.5: students must demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace, adding visual displays and engaging audio recordings when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details. I feel I would be able to teach both of these standards by creating visual representations and tutorials for my students, as well as teach them hands on and provide help as they do it in class until they are proficient.
On the other hand, I am not sure how I would take the first step in going about teaching standard LAFS 3.W.3.8: Recall info from experiences or gather info from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. Taking notes is a difficult topic to teach in my opinion because students first think they need to write everything down, and it might be difficult to explain how to know what is important enough to write down, and what is not.
One solution to becoming more comfortable in teaching the previous standard (note taking), would be by using the CPALMS resource "It's All In The Notes." The student will read an informational text. They will gather info from the text and record their notes on a graphic organizer. These notes will be sorted into provided categories. This is a good way to get students to start getting used to taking notes. If we as teachers provide an organized worksheet, it will make it easier for the students to know what's important enough to write down and what doesn't need to be noted. I would use this in the classroom by first reading a story with the entire class, and filling out the note sheet as a class to show the students what it's supposed to look like.
The newsletter design we had to create last week in class really opened me up to a lot of new things you can do on Microsoft Word! One thing I did not know how to do before was insert photos and graphics in the header or in the same line as text. Each time I tried to do it before, it would mess up the formatting or move my previous work around. I learned how to create page breaks so that your previous work stays in place, while you can basically create a new layout right underneath it. I loved the creativity that was put into the project, but I did not like that we had to put a lot of effort into the creativity when it was not even part of the grading scale.
In the future, I can definitely improve my classroom newsletters by using a template (even though we weren't allowed to use one for this assignment), or by asking more questions and looking up tutorials on how to add even more fun elements to my newsletter. This assignment will definitely help me in my future career not only as a teacher, but in any job that I must create a flyer, brochure, or ad for a company.
7 February 2019
Putting on my 3rd grade teacher hat, I would feel confident in teaching many of the standards, such as LAFS.3.W.2.6: students must use technology to produce and publish writing (using skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others, and LAFS.3.SL.2.5: students must demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace, adding visual displays and engaging audio recordings when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details. I feel I would be able to teach both of these standards by creating visual representations and tutorials for my students, as well as teach them hands on and provide help as they do it in class until they are proficient.
On the other hand, I am not sure how I would take the first step in going about teaching standard LAFS 3.W.3.8: Recall info from experiences or gather info from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. Taking notes is a difficult topic to teach in my opinion because students first think they need to write everything down, and it might be difficult to explain how to know what is important enough to write down, and what is not.
One solution to becoming more comfortable in teaching the previous standard (note taking), would be by using the CPALMS resource "It's All In The Notes." The student will read an informational text. They will gather info from the text and record their notes on a graphic organizer. These notes will be sorted into provided categories. This is a good way to get students to start getting used to taking notes. If we as teachers provide an organized worksheet, it will make it easier for the students to know what's important enough to write down and what doesn't need to be noted. I would use this in the classroom by first reading a story with the entire class, and filling out the note sheet as a class to show the students what it's supposed to look like.
The newsletter design we had to create last week in class really opened me up to a lot of new things you can do on Microsoft Word! One thing I did not know how to do before was insert photos and graphics in the header or in the same line as text. Each time I tried to do it before, it would mess up the formatting or move my previous work around. I learned how to create page breaks so that your previous work stays in place, while you can basically create a new layout right underneath it. I loved the creativity that was put into the project, but I did not like that we had to put a lot of effort into the creativity when it was not even part of the grading scale.
In the future, I can definitely improve my classroom newsletters by using a template (even though we weren't allowed to use one for this assignment), or by asking more questions and looking up tutorials on how to add even more fun elements to my newsletter. This assignment will definitely help me in my future career not only as a teacher, but in any job that I must create a flyer, brochure, or ad for a company.
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