Saturday, August 8, 2015

ETE 653 Revitalized Instructional Unit Reflective Self-Evaluation


Reflective Self-Evaluation
Sue Pawula
           
            When creating this Revitalized Instructional Unit, I enjoyed the opportunity to utilize so many different strategies.  I am looking forward to using these theories and instructional strategy model in my classroom.  Creating this document made it that much easier for me to “reach in the hat and pull out” a new strategy and implement it to improve my instruction for all my students.  The strategies that I have included have really transformed the prior lessons into much higher thinking levels for the students.  All of the activities and assessment are aligned with the strategies to allow them to flow seamlessly.
            Technology included is either videos or interactive sites where students acquire extra information in an interesting format that also furthers the lesson.  They allow the students to participate in their own learning and go back if they have a misconception and realize what is the correct information. 
            All the justifications included for the changes in the lesson clearly state how the lesson is creating an effective instructional environment, which will allow students to take charge of their learning and scaffold their questioning ability.  These activities will assist them to use their cognitive skills in critical and creative ways in order to become higher-level thinkers.
            The video presentation shares all of the information provided in this document in an useful manner.  The paper is written in correct format as requested.
            As I said, I have enjoyed delving into the different theories that encourage all teachers to think about how to activate their students’ minds through movement and development of questioning skills.  We need to hand some of the tools for learning into the students hands so that they can question and delve for information to answer question.  They need to become more skilled in defending their opinions with facts.  We as teachers need to guide and facilitate this type of learning.  That is where the strategy models come to play since having acquired so many higher level thinking strategies will allow me to increase the learning in my classroom through there implementation. 

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