Blog Journal 3
I feel very prepared to teach the ELA standards of defining words using internet resources and analyzing or using texts from multiple forms of media in a project because these are the skills I feel I was equipped with in middle school and high school. As a young girl, I thoroughly enjoyed using thesaurus.com to diversify my vocabulary and impress my peers. My dad rarely told me the definitions of words I didn't know because he wanted to encourage me to look them up myself in the dictionary, and later on sites like dictionary.com. Since 7th or 8th grade, any time I did a research project I was required to use a print source as well as a reliable online resource. This forced me to pay attention to the credibility of different online sources from a young age. I would be nervous to teach students to incorporate graphs or digital models of information in their work because I rarely did that myself in school. I had one project my sophomore year in which I had to make a pie chart, and doing so online was very difficult for me. I would definitely need to learn the skill better myself before I was equipped to teach anyone else.
I would use the lesson plans in the CPALMS Toolkit. All you have to do is go to your grade level and subject and there are dozens of different lesson plans within the subject. As a teacher, if I had a certain lesson plan one week that coincided with a lesson plan on CPALMS, I would assign my students to watch the plan on CPALMS to improve their understanding. The lessons flow like PowerPoints with a voiceover guiding the lesson. I think they would be helpful in providing the students a perspective different from mine on the same topic. This would appeal to both visual and auditory learners, and we could apply the skills they gained at home in the classroom.
In doing the newsletter assignment, I learned many new skills. Since the Word Skill Check prep began, I have gotten the chance to work much closer with all the different functions Word has to offer, and this assignment put those skills to the test. I really enjoyed picking a cohesive color scheme for this project. I liked being able to chose varying shapes to emphasize different parts of the newsletter. I showed this newsletter to a friend of mine, and he didn't even realize that I had made it myself and just assumed it was from one of my teachers. That made me excited to know I will be able to easily apply this skill in my future classroom. I definitely need to work more with columns. I had a lot of difficulty formatting them throughout the process.
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I would use the lesson plans in the CPALMS Toolkit. All you have to do is go to your grade level and subject and there are dozens of different lesson plans within the subject. As a teacher, if I had a certain lesson plan one week that coincided with a lesson plan on CPALMS, I would assign my students to watch the plan on CPALMS to improve their understanding. The lessons flow like PowerPoints with a voiceover guiding the lesson. I think they would be helpful in providing the students a perspective different from mine on the same topic. This would appeal to both visual and auditory learners, and we could apply the skills they gained at home in the classroom.
In doing the newsletter assignment, I learned many new skills. Since the Word Skill Check prep began, I have gotten the chance to work much closer with all the different functions Word has to offer, and this assignment put those skills to the test. I really enjoyed picking a cohesive color scheme for this project. I liked being able to chose varying shapes to emphasize different parts of the newsletter. I showed this newsletter to a friend of mine, and he didn't even realize that I had made it myself and just assumed it was from one of my teachers. That made me excited to know I will be able to easily apply this skill in my future classroom. I definitely need to work more with columns. I had a lot of difficulty formatting them throughout the process.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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