Facilitation

Facilitating Learning

There are three key ideas about learning in the article From Speculation to Science. The ideas are that students are not blank slates, teachers need to teach subjects in depth and teaching metacognitive skills.

Winter 2021 - Year 4

Initial Goal:

My goal for this semester is to work on the pacing of my lessons to ensure that it is appropriate for all students (FL8). I want my lessons to be flexible and well-paced for all, as well as ensuring that I spent less time in whole groups and more time immersed in the learning experience. I will be working on this throughout the whole practicum and by the end, I want to say that I was successfully able to pace lessons appropriately.

Growth:

My pacing has really improved throughout this practicum. I was able to focus more on the sequencing of lessons which allowed me to pace out the lessons more thoughtfully. The pacing ensured that students were understanding smaller pieces of information more thoroughly. My lesson planning is evidence of where I began to focus on one aspect of the 'whole picture' for a lesson instead of trying to cover it all. This was the last lesson of our alliteration acrostic poems where students already had two days to work on it. The main focus for this lesson was finishing it up and editing by adding a simile or metaphor for enrichment. At the beginning of my practicum, I would have tried to encompass this whole lesson in one day, but instead I sequenced it out into three which worked so much more effectively.

Goal:

My future goal is to provide clear explanations with rich language and examples (FL5). I want to ensure that my explanations are clear and accurate and that the vocabulary is appropriate for students. I also want to be more intentional with providing rich explanations with analogies and scaffolding to make concepts clear. I found that there were times when I really had to take some steps back with the learning because I was not effective with scaffolding.

Mar. 15 Alliteration Lesson Plan

Fall 2019 - Year 3

Initial Goal:

My initial goal was to try to use a variety of teaching strategies to engage learners in rich learning experiences (FL2). Within a classroom, there are always going to have diverse learning needs and as a teacher, it is your responsibility to facilitate learning for them.

Growth:

I feel that I quickly learned which accommodations were needed for the success of each student. I felt that learning goals were engaging for all students. I allowed for each type of diverse need to enjoy the learning goals. I believe that my lesson plans were thoughtful by having each learner in mind when looking at modifications.

Goals:

An area for growth of mine is to continually take cues from my students' body language when they are sitting. I am working on giving instructions in steps and then regrouping later at the meeting area to give the next set of instructions. I have tried to be explicit in my instructions which in the end does not work because students lost focus halfway through and were not listening anyways. This also includes the pacing of my lessons (FL9). I feel that I tried too hard to get to all the content in one day or in a certain time period and I just ended up interfering with other learning times. I need to remember that students may need that break after doing a task for too long or they become disengaged. I can always revisit or come back to it the following day. If students are disengaged, they are not truly learning and that is on me because I am the one that has control over the shift in learning goals.

Metre Scavenger

This was a learning goal I planned for my students. The activity allowed them to have choice for which items they measured and chose. It also allowed those students with ADHD to move around and not be stuck learning in their desks. Lastly, it was great for students with anxiety because it allows them to gather their thoughts before joining a large group.

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