Saturday, November 26, 2016

Student Teaching Reflection 13

This week, I was in the classroom Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, I had an observation where I designed and ran a Jeopardy-style review game for the biology students’ test. This game was a little bit of trial and error, but by the second section of the class it ran very smoothly. In the first section of the class, the students who were not answering the question were not engaged in the review and didn’t get as much out of the game. To fix this in the second section, I awarded half points to any team who had the correct answer when it wasn’t their turn. This allowed all of the students to earn plenty of points even though we only had time for 2 turns each. This competition aspect helped the students stay engaged and focused on the game. In addition, the winning team earned a bonus point on their test. In the future, I would like to find a game that has a competitive component but has the students answer individually to track who is prepared. We have tried a Kahoot review, but the students easily get off-task and take a long time to get their devices out and signed in.

In addition to the test review this week, I also got to see how my teacher handles SLOs in her anatomy classes. She handed back and reviewed the quarter 1 SLOs. She reviewed the three components that students should have in their responses to the scientific questions: claim, evidence, and reasoning. She also gave a sample response, but specified that it was not the only correct response.

Finally, I was able to observe a different teacher’s conceptual biology class to compare similarities and differences to my mentor teacher’s classes. This class was very similar to my mentor teacher’s conceptual biology classes, but only 1 teacher instead of 2 co-teachers.

1 comment:

  1. A suggestion might be to try Plickers since it is a good non-tech way to asses students individually while having competition. Anytime you can observe or watch another teacher collect artifacts, it will benefit you and your teaching. Nice job this week.

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