Field Experience

After teaching one of my One Day Teaching/Learning Plan and focusing it with the assessment and/or instructional strategies, I was able to obtain feedback from students on how well my lesson plan worked. At the end, I was able to reflect on how I taught the lesson, as well as gather feedback from the students. 

A. What would you change? 

From some of the feedback that I received from the students, I noticed that one of the things that they saw was that we needed more time to go over the lesson plan. Granted, we only had 30 minutes to review and work on it, students did pick up on it, yet they needed more time. Therefore, I would either have to reduce the content and just incorporate the main points, or incorporate more time so all the points are covered. 

B. What did you enjoy?

What I enjoyed about this was the fact that students did participate in the lesson plan in order for it to go smoothly. Students did participate by asking questions and helping each other out. I did ask the students if they enjoyed the small lesson, and most of them said yes. They enjoyed the fact that I spoke slowly, I repeated key words, I used different words to get the same point across, I translated from English to Spanish and vice-versa. 

Pre-Assessment

For this assignment, I was glad I looked into it before the weekend, if not, I would've been in a difficult position trying to find a group of students to assess. Working in a High School Continuation setting, I had a limited amount of "friendly"students I could pick from; but I managed to pick a few.

Since I wanted to get the complete feeling of a typical classroom, I picked one ELL student, one with special needs (ADHD), two Hispanic Americans, three Anglo Americans, and a Native American.  That constituted my small "friendly" group of 8.

The Pre-Assessment that I chose was the one for Monday which introduced the notion of Inequalities.

Students at first were not too happy to learn, but I tried to get their attention by breaking the ice. I asked student's how their weekend was, thus I asked them to share what they did, and what they would've liked to have done. I wrote a couple of the scenarios on the board, and wrote the inequality signs in the middle.

I explained to them that Inequalities could be used in multiple ways, including figuring out what was greater (or better) in their own opinion in regards to what they did.

I handed out a hard copy of my PPT presentation, and student's followed along. For my ELL student, I spoke slowly, I used figures, and translated specific key words. I made sure she understood what I was asking by asking her in Spanish to explain to me what she had understood.

Overall, students responded very well since they asked questions, and responded to the questions that I asked individually.

I would change my rubric key, because after reviewing what I taught the students, my rubric key does not justify what I want from them. I feel that I ended up doing the rubric key to grade myself, not the students.

Another area that I would change or modify would be not to get to social with the students. It tends to get students off track and then I end up spending more time getting them back on task.

TED 633

My name is Rafael Miravete, I am 29 years old, happily married, and I have a beautiful  year-old daughter that's discovering the 

joys of life! I am of Hispanic background, thus I grew up speaking, writing, and hearing both Spanish and English, therefore I am 

bilingual in English and Spanish. I currently work as an Instructional Aide at an Alternative Education High School setting. The 

program is for high school students that are credit deficient or simply do not find the normal high school setting as a productive 

place. We deal with 10th, 11th, and 12th grades; on occasions with 9th grades but under special circumstances. Being Hispanic and 

living so close to the border, I get to enjoy the greatness of both worlds; U.S.A and Mexico. My family and I spend quite some time 

traveling to Mexico to visit friends and family. I have two dogs, a pit-bull and a Labrador who enjoy tearing up my yard, yet I feel they 

take care of my house and family quite well. I love working on cars as a hobby, and right now I have an 89 honda civic which I 

converted to right hand drive as well as installing multiple rare Japanese parts on it. 

I decided I wanted to be a teacher ever since I joined a club/class called P.A.L.S. back in high school. (I'll be honest, I only joined 

because it was mostly girls in it.) During that class, we would go to the elementary school and help students with their homework,

and that's where my passion for helping was born. 

I wish to finish my credentials program and continue working where I am, but as a fully credentialed teacher. I love what I do and 

where I do it. 

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Journal Entry # 6e The Ending

I would echo some of my points into the ending that way the reader does not have to re-read the essay to understand the main points of the speculation.
And depending on the topic, a larger implication can be made.

Journal Entry # 6d The Causal Argument

I think that I should propose as many causes as i feel necessary to make a point, or get the information i want across to the reader.
In my personal way of writing, I believe that the proposed causes should be from least important to most important. That way, people are left with a hard jab with "facts."
I could anticipate objections by speaking not only with friends that are in this "fad" or "trend." I would aknowledge the existence of objections, but since it is a speculation paper and not an argument paper, i do not have to refute all of them.
There might be some stupid objections, but the most important and significant objections should be included to provide both sides of the story so the reader can see both sides.

Journal Entry #6c The Presentation

Yes I do need to demonstrate that my subject exists. That way i can obtain credibility amongst the readers.

Since I am just speculating on a "trend" or a "fad" and not arguing for it, I am able to give my personal opinion where it is here to stay or not.

Journal Entry #6b The Beginning

The opening would have to point out that it is a new craze that has been taken in with greater acceptance than other "crazes" in the past. i.e. cars with bodykits.I believe that I should provide different views into my paper such as Saporito's, Goode's, and McClain's.

First hand experience should always be included, that way your readers dont say, "hes probably never been affected by it, or done it." With this topic, it is kind of hard to provide statistics, but anecdotes can come in handy.