0525 Week Six Reflection

Having been out of the classroom for 10 years I really enjoyed reviewing the strategies during this course. I remember using the note taking and summarizing strategy in my classroom as well as the non-linguistic representation strategy. Having been a Science teacher, I also asked students to form a hypothesis and test it.

The aha moment that I had during the course was to reinforce effort. In my future classroom I will use this strategy to demonstrate to students the relationship between effort, learning and grades. I will also make much more use of cooperative learning in my classroom. I hope that my future school will be receptive to the practice of students collaborating on-line (assuming that it is appropriate to the grade level and learning targets.) I'd really like to see this strategy in action.

I come away from this class feeling more confident and incredibly excited to begin working with students and implementing all the strategies we discussed.