Current Event Presentation

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Reflection:

I used critical thinking in this assignment. First I had to find a current event that I was interested in and that would be an interesting event for the class. I choose this event because it is something that I am very interested in and am passionate about. I also thought it is an important event for the class to know. When I wrote the summary I had to think of the important parts of the article and include them. I also had to make sure I did not use similar phrasing and sentences in my summary to avoid plagiarism. I also used critical thinking when coming up with the crital questions for the class and saying why this article is important  to enhance my presentation I had to think of pictures that would be interesting and make my presentation better.

 

French Revolution Podcast

Reflection:

I used critical thinking in this assignment. I used it first when researching the assignment to gather good information from credible sources, such as websites that end with .edu. I also used it during research when I was picking what significant events were interesting and important to talk about. When recording, I use critical thinking to make the recording more interesting. We decided to use some sound effects to make it more interesting. We used a news intro and sound effects to imitate a mob of people. Somethings I could have done better is do more research on different events. I could have added more information into my notes.

 

Arctic Ice Cap

Reflection:

I used critical thinking in this project. I used critical thinking in this project when finding sources and creating my sway. When researching questions I had to find credible sources. I had to use different strategies to see if they were credible such as finding sources with .edu and finding well known organisations. Learning how to find good sources of information will help me to get better information, learn more and complete assignments better. I also used critical thinking when I was putting information into my own words. I had to find the most important information in the text by highlighting it then copying the information in a word document. From there I pieced together the information with my own words. This helped me to make sure that I wont plagiarize information on this assignment and other assignments in the future. Overall, I think I did well in this assignment. To improve I could have added more depth and information into my project. I could also have done more research on a few topics to understand them more.

Take Your Kids To Work Day

 

Pictures of the bubble lab the students did for science. They had to blow then measure the bubble.

Pictures of classroom

Name of your host: Brittany Litz Relationship to you: Middle school teacher

The Interview: (ask your host these questions)

1. What is your job title?

Teacher

2. What is your job description? Middle school teacher.

Teaches grades 6,7 and 8 in the mandarin bilingual program at Scott Creek Middle.

3.What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?

Teaches curriculum. Also plays the role of councillor and parent often. Plan and create new lessons that are engaging for students. This requires lots of organisation and preparation. Needs to make photo copies. Find resources that are relevant then teach the class. While teaching have to deal with behaviour management and making sure everything is running smoothly. Teaching different levels of students depending on age, maturity and where they are at. Plan field trips. Student parent teacher interviews.

4.What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:

a) training? A year of PDP. Took courses that connected to lesson planning, how to be a teacher, how to manage different behaviours, how to teach EAL or learning disabilities. This once year course gave teaching certification.

b) education? Bachelor of arts in English.

c) experience? A lot of volunteering in a classroom to apply for the teaching program.

d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?

Very organised, outspoken, not afraid to speak in public, enjoy working with students. Strong communication skills and strong skills at connecting with people.

5.What are some of the things you like about the job?

Always different after 7 years of substitute reaching and 4 years in the mandarin program has taught different subjects and things. Worked with different people. Report cards have changed the curriculum has changed. Social aspect of the job, interacting and connecting with students. Fun parts going on field trips and spirit days. Summers off.

6.What are some of the things you dislike about this job?

Always changing. In 10 years of teaching has only taught 1 or 2 things twice. Really hard to be constantly doing all the work to learn something before presenting it. Teaching has really changing so it’s not so much up to the teacher to learn the content its more that the teachers have to facilitate the content. The paperwork that’s involved. Such as report cards that aren’t really meaningful but will spend 70 hours working on them. The politics of the job. Strikes, politics with other staff members, sometimes there is politics with parents and with admin. This can be challenging at times.

7.How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?

A push for integrating technology which is a good thing. Challenging thing is people are encouraging use of technology, but there is none available for students. Currently they have 15 laptops for 4 classes so it’s really limiting. A push on teachers facilitating. Not as much of an emphasis on teachers being experts in a subject or field. Teachers are going to be more an expert on how to teach and strategies for learning.It’s not going to be a teacher at the front of the classroom making a student take notes.

Student Reflections:

1.Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):

a) It is a rewarding job to see that your work and effort has an effect on students and to see them improve.

b) It’s social. You are not always behind a desk doing work, you are working with other people and interacting with students.

c) Its always changing. You get to teach different things every year. You are never doing the same thing twice.

2.Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):

a) It requires a lot of organisation and if you loose or forget something it could effect your lesson.

b) It takes a lot of time to plan a lesson that you may only use once.

c) Doing report card take a lot of time and effort. Most people don’t really care about the comments and only look at the letter grades.

3.Is this job for you? Why or why not?

This is not my ideal job but I think I could enjoy doing it. I would enjoy interacting with students, seeing their improvement and it’s not repetitive. I would not enjoy the report card writing and always having to plan new lessons that are engaging, fit the constantly changing curriculum and that would probably only be used once or twice.

4.Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?).

I think it can really help to explore your different choices and see what you enjoy doing. By doing TYKTW you could discover a career that you would like to do. It also gives you a chance to see what it is like to work. What requirements are needed and what are some of the positives and negatives involved with that job.

Creative Short Story

Reflection:
I used communication in this assignment. I had to use communication when planning to bring the object, writing the story and taking the pictures. We had decided on a crystal as our object so we communicated through instagram for which crystal we wanted to use. We shared pictures and decided which one to use. We used communication when writing the story when we were discussing what our general idea was for the story, how we formed sentences and what descriptive words to use. Lastly, we had to communicate what pictures we wanted to take and send the pictures through email to each other.
I can improve my communication core competency by getting more in depth about our ideas. I think we could have added some more detail by discussing our ideas further.