Strategy Lesson

During our strategy lesson about clustering and mapping, one thing I believe could have helped us would have been more time to do the lesson. I thought several things went well, and got reported that went well, like the brainstorming in the beginning, got everyone in the right state of mind. I felt like it gave the class an opportunity to get focused in our topic. Some grows that we received, were focused on our video. Not that our video was uninteresting, but that we should’ve stopped on important points to engage with the class. Some glows were our explanation of the instructions and giving them a good example of what we were looking for as well. A grow was having questions on the board to focus them during the videos. So overall I think our biggest improvement would’ve been to have more time, and added in our planning to have some type of way to keep them on track during the video so that the class takes away what we need them to for them to be able to do the assignment afterwards. An unexpected challenge was as a teacher, getting most of the words that students shouted out in the beginning written on the board, although it showed enthusiasm from them, was a difficult as a teacher to make sure everyone was heard, and their input recorded. If done again, with more time, improvements on how the video is watched and understood, and possibly broken up groups for the beginning brainstorming so that everyone is guaranteed to participate.

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https://anchor.fm/jared232/episodes/Journal-Club-e8v5mq

Journal Club posting

Integrating Literacy with Social Studies Education: A Review of Popular Texts for Social Studies Teacher Educators

Written by Andrea M. Hawkman and Antonio Castro

This Journal that I found was an excellent resource for finding and giving a review of widely used and great resources for the integration of literacy in Social Studies. The authors gave brief overviews of the resources and gave their importance and uses for the sources. They laid them out in the way that they related, with a grouping like strategy. For example, putting the two sources that related to the integration of literacy in social studies improving people citizenship and the student’s ability to participate in our society. An interesting thing that I found was one of the articles, “Teaching Like a Historian”, me and Haley have read excerpts of in our SS methods class. Another connection was the mention of the C3 framework, something we are working on currently in our class for our final project. I thought this was an extremely useful article for us, as upcoming SS teachers, in finding useful texts that improve and change our teaching strategies. I see this best used as picking and choosing portions from these sources that best works for us as we see ourselves as teachers, and how we wish to teach and implement these other educators frameworks.
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