Presentations on 10/14

Group 1-Healthy Living
-Interesting use of technology... www.pollseverywhere.com
-Not much use of social learning theory
Overall I thought you ladies did well. You had a concrete example with the powerpoint and also had examples of foods off the food pyramid on our tables. Since your lesson was about healthy living the candy might not have been such a great idea, but I'm not complaining! I thought you did well and the image of the fat from the rat was definitely a good image to get across the idea of how bad fat really can be for you.

Group 2-Homophones
You had us work in groups right away after you told us what your lesson would be about. I liked the way you used riddles to get us to think of new homophones that we couldn't come up with on our own after you told us to make a list of all the homophones we could think of. You did a great job of utilizing SLT.

Group 3-Reading/Active listening
For this group we were told to pretend as if we were fourth graders. They had us sit on the floor while they read us a story. Before reading the story we discussed ways to be respectful as a class. They asked questions while reading the book aloud which is a really good technique to keep students actively mentally engaged while listening to the story. To us the questions seemed silly but they would have been very good questions to use for the age group you were targeting. I really enjoyed your presentation.


Group 4-Alphabet
I liked the game. It got us up and moving and would be a great way to get younger students involved and excited about the lesson. You used concrete examples by having the letters written on pumpkins for us to go to the back of the room and find. You then moved to abstract when you asked us to read the words on the list that started with that letter. This would definitely be a great lesson for kindergarten age children although they would probably need a lot more instruction on how to play the game than we did.