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Location: Oleai Village, Saipan, CNMI
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Hafadai and Welcome to Ms. Jacklyn Echon's 5th Grade Student Teaching Blog! This blog contains information about the teaching strategies, classroom management and techniques, and activities that were practiced during my experience as a student teacher. I'm very fortunate to have such wonderful students and a very excellent master teacher, Ms. Theresa DLGuerrero. I enjoyed this experience and I really wish it would never stop. Enjoy my blog! Have a wonderful day!!!
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Welcome to our classroom! It is a pleasure to have you take some time off from your busy schedule to visit my Student Teaching BLOG. You've met my wonderful master teacher, Ms. Theresa DLGuerrero. We're a perfect match made in heaven!!! I hope you will enjoy my blog as much as I had putting it together. Thank You for visiting... FEEL AT HOME! :)
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1. Journal Writing – Journal writing affords the opportunity for thinking and writing. Expressive writing requires that participants become actively involved in the learning process. This process becomes less effective if participants need to worry about spelling or grammar. Students should be encouraged to write freely in their journals without fear of evaluation.
2. Class Discussion – A true discussion occurs when a GROUP of people including the leader, share experiences, debate ideas and theories, discuss experiences, and work together on common problems. It is not: a teacher asks a question and a participant answers. Class discussion can be used to initiate, amplify, or summarize a session.
3. Student or Participant Experts – This is another way of having active learning. Give the participant information and let them read, and learn what they will then present to the class. They can also do research outside of the classroom, training, and prepare to teach what they have learned. Participants enjoy hearing from each other, and the experience stimulates positive interaction.
4. Mini-Lecture - The mini-lecture is a concise way to provide participants with background information, research findings, or motivational examples to spark interest and give them a framework for discussion or activity to follow. Mini-lectures should be brief and targeted, setting up an activity or discussion.
5. Small Groups – Participants working together can help stimulate each others activity. Small group activities are cooperative, but have less formal structure than cooperative learning. These activities encourage collective thinking and provide opportunities for participants to work together and increase social skills.
6.Question Box – An anonymous question box provides the opportunity for all participants to get answers to questions they might be hesitant to ask in class. It also gives the teacher, leader time to think about answers to difficult questions or look for more information. Questions should be reviewed and responded to regularly, and all questions placed in the box should be taken seriously. If you don’t know the answer to the question, let the participants know and research it and get back to them. I also like to pass out index cards to all participants and get them to write a question or write no question and walk around and have everybody drop their card into the box. That way you really don’t know who wrote the question and the difficult or sensitive question can be asked and answered.
7. Current Events – Analyzing local, state, national and international current events helps participants relate classroom discussion to everyday life. It also brings in local, political, and cultural issues into the training or classroom.
8. Games & Puzzles – Games and puzzles can be used to provide a different environment in which learning can take place. It can also be used in cooperative learning groups. Many types of games and puzzles can be adapted to present and review concepts. Games such as Bingo, Concentration, or Jeopardy are easily formatted for different subjects. They can be used for review, reinforcement, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making. Watch the competitiveness, as this is a learning tool to be used as for fun.
9. Artistic Expression – Participants may be offered a choice of expressing themselves in art, or through writing. Such a choice accommodates the different learning need and talents of students. Completed work should be displayed.
10. Surveys and Inventories – Surveys and inventories can be used to assess knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices. These instruments can be used to gather knowledge about a variety of groups, including participants, families, or work type settings.
11. Self – Assessment - used to help individuals and groups process and reflect on their individual work or their group work.
12. Experiments and Demonstration – Experiments and demonstrations can be used to show how something works or why something is important. These activities also provide a way to show the correct process for doing something, like a procedure. They should be carefully planned and conducted. They often involve the use of supporting materials.
13. Student or Participant presentations – Individual student or groups of participants can present information to the rest of the class. Be sure to have clear guidelines for participants to follow, including time and objectives. This strategy also goes very well with adult learning theory and teaching others for retention.
14. Creative Writing – This strategy can take many forms, from poems, stories, written role-play (scripted), and journal written reflective thoughts. They can be shared or not. This form gives participants a creative outlet to the subject taught or discussed. One can also see transfer learning happen in this form of expression.
15. Celebrations – Activities that focus on the joy of completion and accomplishment. These activities serve as reminders and markers. It is appropriate to stop, acknowledge, and appreciate their accomplishments.
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2.Culture Acrostic Poems – The students were put into groups to write acrostic poems using the letters C-U-L-T-U-R-E. The students had to compose words and sentences that are associated with their cultures and create a poster about their poem. (ex: C = customs; U = Understanding one another’s culture; L = Learning to Love a culture; T = Traditions; U – unconditional love in each family; R = respecting each other’s differences; E = ethnic groups)
3.Crayon Etching – This activity was used to represent different tools and objects that each culture uses (ex: Chamorros – spears, latte stones, sling stones, etc.) or include anything that helps their classmate understand their culture. The students were given a criteria to follow: 1. The product must have at least 5 different etchings from their culture. 2: The product must have their name written on the back.
4. Cultural Feast – As a culminating event for our 1st quarter Social Studies Unit, the entire 5th grade class was able to celebrate a cultural feast where the students brought in a dish from their culture. Before the feast, the students shared their recipes with their classmates. The students were able to try the food during the feast.
5. Native American Homes – Compare and Contrast: When students were creating their Native American region homes, they were asked during their presentations to compare and contrast their homes with the ones that they’ve built. This activity gave the students an awareness of how values are different between other cultures because they get to understand that homes are built according to the geographical aspect of a certain region.
6. STUCO Rally - the STUCO rally gave certain students, also known as potential “candidates,” an opportunity to run for Student Council. Candidates from the 3rd – 6th grade class rallied against each other in hopes of getting a seat for this year’s council. This year’s candidates were a very diverse group because it was composed of students from different grade-levels, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds. During the rally, the candidates had to give a 2-minute speech in front of the whole school. Some of them were very creative with their speeches. Instead of the traditional speech, the candidates also danced, cheered, involved their classmates on the stage, and sang a song. The 2 candidates that ran from my class are: Jenny Rose Habijan (P.I.O.) and Rosien Spis (Vice President).
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1. Powerpoint Presentations – Technology, Native Americans, Cells, Body Systems, Verbs, Nouns, Tenses, Subjects, Predicates, Rounding, Place Value, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, etc.
2. Jeopardy – Technology Jeopardy, Native American Jeopardy, Careers Jeopardy, Science Jeopardy, Culture Jeopardy.
3. Television – We used the TV to watch videos about Native Americans.
4. Radio/Stereo System – We listen to music and have our students dance or sing during their lunchtime on Fridays.
5. Video Camera/Camera – the video camera was used to document special events or activities that happened at the school and in our classroom (ex: presentations and STUCO rally).
6. Overhead Projector – this was used to project our Daily Oral Math (D.O.M.), Daily Oral Geography (D.O.G.), and Daily Oral Language (D.O.L.).
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