Lessons

Group 1: Something that I thought group one did well was starting with words that are familiar to the students. Though I felt that the words that were given were so often misspelled that the students knew how to spell them correctly from previous repetition. Two things that I felt this group could work on was classroom management and time management.

Group 2: I noticed that group two started with a video to be more concrete and then followed that with group work. This was helpful to keep the students actively mentally engaged but later on we went quickly from videos to text which was a jump from concrete to more abstract ideas.

Group 3: This group was good as using concrete examples and keeping students actively mentally engaged by using something that could be applicable in their own lives. Something that this group could work on would be to remember to start with the concrete examples and the students zone of proximal development.

Group 4: Group four started with things that are familiar to the students and used pictures for concrete representation. They allowed for the use of a more knowledgeable peer by letting the students work together. This group could work on keeping students actively mentally engaged and finding a way to help the students truly learn the information instead of restating the facts.

Group 5: It was evident that this group tried to start concretely by starting with what is familiar to the students, english. They also used a diagram to make it more concrete and let the students try to conjugate for themselves. One thing that group five could work on would be making the "clothing" less abstract. Once it was explained that the stem was "naked" without a conjugation than it became more clear and understandable but was a pretty abstract idea to start with. Maybe draw the stem on the board and "add clothes" to it while explaining how to "put clothes" on the stem.