{"id":52,"date":"2016-02-29T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/singhs\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-03-13T17:14:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T00:14:56","slug":"february-11th-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/singhs\/2016\/02\/29\/february-11th-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry- Practicum Reflection: February 11th, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, February the 11th<\/sup>, 2016 I had the opportunity to teach a math lesson in my kindergarten practicum classroom.
\nIn the past, I have focused more on teaching a standard- traditional lesson, where I explain the topic\/ lesson and then get the students to work independently on a worksheet. However, this time, I really wanted to try something a little different. I had two reasons for this. One was, I want to try out different teaching approaches as I am preparing for the upcoming long practicum so I thought this would be a good opportunity to try something new, and the other reason was I want to try out different strategies that would be good for the ELL\u2019s in my class. I wanted to try something that would help engage both ELL and non-ELL’s.<\/p>\n

The lesson I taught was on 2D shapes. I had all the students sit on the carpet for the entire 40-minute lesson. I started off by reading out a storybook about 2D shapes to the students so they had a better understanding of what shapes are. I then had them find different shapes for me in the classroom and asked them questions about the shapes followed by having them make shapes out of pipe-cleaners. What I observed was that the ELL\u2019s were listening to the book very carefully. They were participating and were really excited to make the shapes. In fact, even the few \u201cshy-quiet\u201d students seemed to be really engaged in this activity; a few were even helping some of the non-ELL students with finding shapes.
\nI think this lesson went quite well, especially for the ELL students. I will definitely do more \u201cdiscussion types of lessons\u201d for the long practicum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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