{"id":126,"date":"2016-03-07T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/?p=126"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:46:03","slug":"practicum-week-5-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/2016\/03\/07\/practicum-week-5-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicum week 5 thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was generally a very good week. \u00a0There was only one lesson that I thought could have worked differently if I had organized it differently. \u00a0I got my Socials 9 class to do a carousel activity where at each station groups would read a section in the textbook then write down a question for the next group to answer. \u00a0The all the following groups would then read the section, answer the question, and write a new question for the next group. \u00a0In theory, this would have been a great learning activity. \u00a0However, what started happening was that students started wandering and certain individuals started doing all the work for their groups. \u00a0Thinking back, some things that I may decide to do to combat these issues are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get students seated and enforce that they be seated when doing the group work<\/li>\n<li>Have a different student do the reading and writing at each table so that more people are involved and on task<\/li>\n<li>Have a brain break half way through the activity so that students aren&#8217;t always focused on the content at hand<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When I was taught this activity at UBC, I thought it was a great activity because it got students moving and thinking at the same time. \u00a0Potentially students would have less inactivity because they are moving to the next station (physical activity) and then reading and writing at the stations (mental activity). \u00a0The problem with how it was taught to me was that it was very generally taught, instructors did not go into detail on different ways to keep students on task, or how to actually organize it. \u00a0All of my suggested changes to the activity came from my own reflection and discussion with my Socials SA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was generally a very good week. \u00a0There was only one lesson that I thought could have worked differently if I had organized it differently. \u00a0I got my Socials 9 class to do a carousel activity where at each station groups would read a section in the textbook then write down a question for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1504008],"tags":[286413,1504241,573],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-practicum-experience","tag-practicum","tag-socials-9","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mrdengler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}