reflections on other groups

Group 1: food/ health
I LOVED how this group really made an effort to have DLT inform their lesson; they had physical examples of the food groups on the table, then showed an image, then placed the groups from the table into where they would fit and then went fully abstract by having us volunteer to provide examples. They did an awesome job fluctuating between abstract and concrete to get their point across. I think they also used it to their advantage with applying the behaviorist theory to the food on the table being rewards. Maybe could have had a bit more in relation to SLT??

Group 2: Homophones
They did a good job waiting for the class's attention and I liked how it wasn't just a lecture but rather directed questions to have the students reference their schemas to the topic. They had a good informing of SLT by having us discuss in groups and I really liked the riddles we got to solve

Group 3: Respect
This one was so cute! The book provided a concrete experience of respect and they also had us brainstorm how we as "kids" had maybe had our feelings disrespected on the playground or in other scenarios. I didn't really love how they made us all sit on the floor and kind of treated us like 5 year olds, I get that the lesson was for kids, but I didn't really want to have to dumb myself down to go through the experience.

Group 4: Alphabet
I liked the game of this and how behaviorist theory challenged us to be competitive made kids want to do the activity. But I think it would have helped to have it more structured, cause there was no order to who was suppost to take their turn when, which was frustrating. Also, I think socialist learning theory may have played a bit too much of a role in this lesson because it seemed like people were more interested in socializing than the activity at hand. Maybe the instructors could have said a little something on why the lesson was relevant to us, (or fruitful/ worth learning) so we would have stayed more focused.

Group 5: States
I struggled a little bit with how DLT fit into this since we didn't really get to see an experience or concrete representation. Maybe having a brief video of the state would have been a more concrete way, and it was just very repetitive. They did associate SLT in their lesson though, by letting us team teach and learn the state aspects together.

Our presentation informed by learning theories

I really thought our group did quite well in this presentation to be honest, I thought we were a strong group. We went from concrete to abstract and back again, used a variety of mediums, and asked appropriate questions. We also did a good job having SLT inform our lesson by having students converse with each other.

Room for error was still apparent though. I was frustrated with the way my group obtained the class's initial attention (as it was not the way we had planned). The video itself was supposed to be the "bell ringer" so to speak, not having the kids get shouted at to be quiet. Also, the first video was set up with a question in mind, but our lesson plan was to just show it with no prior information, so that the student's could discover it on their own, so that was kind of frustrating, but I think it still worked out ok and people seemed to be engaged and interested in our presentation. I personally was the only person that moved throughout the classroom out of my group as well, listening to what different groups were discussing as well as keeping the classroom focused. It would have been nice if some of my other group members would have done the same.

The only last thing is that I wish we could have had a bit more time to conclude our presentation, this may have been because we let discussion go on a bit longer than needed. I had wanted to relate social norms more to how they define our society, and how they can be important for things like business, social acceptance, and exposure to new cultures/travel. But obviously this was a topic that would traditionally require a whole classroom period so thats ok.