Reading Reflection #7

Corin Justa

March 15, 2013

EDT 3470

Chapter Seven Reflection:

Teaching is an extraordinary task that takes a ton of patience, time and consideration. It is important that teachers know how to create an appropriate lesson plan, promote it and keep it moving to reach the end with a successful outcome. Classroom discussions, which take place on several levels during project implementation, are very important and helpful throughout a project. Levels of classroom discussions include teacher to teacher, student to student and teacher to student. Each of these levels of discussion is beneficial to both the teacher and the students to keep a project moving successfully in the classroom.

Throughout the duration of a project it is important that the teacher routinely monitor the students work and asks questions to determine how each student is doing. Checking in involves asking questions to follow up on your students progress. Certain question topics that teachers may ask their students about include procedural, teamwork, understanding and self assessment. Each of these topics helps the teacher determine whether a student is meeting the deadlines, understanding the assignments, working well together, and reflecting on their own work. With this information teachers can determine if they need to adjust the overall project in any way to help benefit the class and keep the students engaged in the activities.

Technology has many benefits to helping students grow and learn throughout their education.  The benefits of optimizing technology in the classroom include helping your students reach learning goals, stay organized, expand their horizons, and providing access to other equitable technologies that may be useful. There are many skills that can be used in education. Some twenty-first century skills can have a positive effect while others can have another. The twenty-first century skills that make or break a project include troubleshooting and manage conflict, such as teamwork. It is important to recognize these skills in the classroom and determine how they are affecting student learning.

This chapter relates to our project by illustrating the importance of keeping a project moving. It provides details on ways to observe students as they work, reflect on how the project is going and how to interact with students and other teachers to end with a successful outcome. It is important when doing a big project that student’s stay on task and that teacher’s adjust their lessons when necessary. One of the biggest responsibilities of teachers is being flexible. Being aware of how to keep a project moving and adjusting things when necessary is extremely important in any lesson plan big or small.