June+9,+2011

REFLECTIONS FOR JUNE 9, 2011

Norman Kao

I was not able to sit with the rest of the class, but I have collected most handouts today. I was impressed with Ms. Chau’s lesson on the video. Wow, I did not know life as a teacher could be this good!

Ying Li I posted my reflection last night, but today when I check Ms. Chau's feedback, I just knew it was losted ! However, I have original texts on my computer and I re-posted it as follow : 今天上午的科学课的确让人兴奋, 我第一次知道如何区分昆虫与非昆虫 , 也是第一次学会用咖啡滤纸做蝴蝶. 但静下来一想,这是作为一个学生的感受. 如果调换一下身份,我作为老师去讲,能否做到像Mr.collin一样让学生兴奋及专注地上课？这才是我要学习与思考的问题. 周老师今天又教我们许多东西，尤其是课堂管理对我来说太有用了，我要在新学年开始时一步步照着去做. 另外因材施教也很重要，有了老师给的框架，我将在今后的工作中套用. 周老师非常敬业，无保留地教给我们许多宝贵的东西，真的太谢谢你了. 想想只有一天的时间了，我真的舍不得你走.

Louisa Yu 又一次感受到美国孩子真幸福. 虽然已经想不起来，在中国我是如何学习生命循环的了. 总之，没有今天上午的课有意思. 尽管还有语言的障碍，可是一点也没有觉得有压力，不知不觉就下课了. 又一次学到美国的先进教学理念和教学方法，如果能将这些带回中国，尽管有许多客观条件限制，不能做到和美国一样，但还是有许多可以发挥的空间. 不能就这样带着一肚子的抱怨和失落感回家，总要带点有用的东西的回去吧.

Shelley Xiao It’s so nice to see Mr. Collin again! He always brings some exciting and fun to the class. He is a great scientist and an amazing magician! I love him! I am also very impressed by Ms. Chau’s treasures box! She is a very talented, generous and resourceful teacher. I love everything she showed and taught us. Ms. Chau is a great role model as a teacher. She really inspired me in many different ways. “When I grow up, I want to be just like her!!!” Thank you Ms. Chau! I was very impressed by Mr. Collin as well. Thank you for your kind words, I hope to inspire more Chinese teachers in the future.

Shaohua Chen This morning Mr. Collin brought me back to my childhood, made me feel like going back to science lab at school. He delivered the science content in a very unique and professional way as always. But now how to leverage science content and language content, how are we going to deliver the content by using what we've learned from Ms. Chau, and also integrate all the standards, these are the top priorities for us. I'll do Balanced Literacy demo today so you'll have some ideas for your 3rd week lesson. For Level 1 students, we debrief how we can use Mr. Collin's presentation for our science lesson.

Jade Jiang Clayton In Mr. Collin's science class, I was able to figure out that he was applying the backward design. He started out by focusing on the goal. I liked the way he set out the stage by asking the questions to activate the knowledge we knew. He gave the general instruction first, and then got us to do the activity which reinforce the knowledge he presented early. Hands on learning process is very important, especially in the subject of science. I also think it is very valuable to understand the concept of multiple intelligence to promote learning individually. I learned a lot from the other teachers too. They are my inspiration, thanks all. You all are wonderful. I'm so glade to know that you see how Mr. Collin presented his lesson and you apply to what you learn from my presentation.

Yinsan Hsu I felt very excited and learned a lot from today's class. Mr. Collin showed us some hand-on science activities and Mrs. Chau shared and instructed us her classroom management techniques and effective instruction. I find those very useful. Throughout these past few days, I have gained many knowledge and feel more confident and comfortable in teaching immersion Chinese. I am glad that I was able to participate the GVA STARTALK this summer; it will definitely enhance my teaching next year. Glade to see you grow just within couple days!

Han Wei This morning ‘s lecture is very productive and gives me insights into how to organize a Science Class. We are well informed of the butterfly life cycle. Besides, we share the experience and strategies of the Classroom Management so that I can apply them in my class. In the afternoon, we do a survey online to identify what type of learners we are. It is very practical and helpful to know the students’ learning type and try to meet their needs and demand. I'm running out of time this afternoon but I'm glade that you felt it is useful for you.

Zhang Xiaohong This morning I was so impressed by the demo science class and had a lot of fun making a beautiful butterfly. The way the science teacher delivered the lesson just reflects the 5 steps in designing a lesson that we have learned yesterday from Ms Chou. Time passes very quickly and I learn a lot about the life cycle of butterfly myself. After that by sharing with other teachers what we have learned from the demo class I benefit a lot. It is so unselfish of Ms Zhou to have offered so many useful classroom management strategies that can be easily applied into our own classroom. In the afternoon we learned how to identify different types of learner by an online survey and design the most appropriate tasks to them to achieve the best effect. I'm running out of time this afternoon but I hope the on-line tools are helpful to most of the teachers.

Gu Xitao This morning the science teacher give us an example of how to teach science. I known that for teaching butterfly we should have the learing objects of : 1. life cycle of butterfly. 2. butterflies are insects. 3. butterflies use camoflauge. we made a paper butterfly. I believe we will apply this in our class. This afternoon Ms Chau help us analysed this morning' s science class. And we appreciated Ms. Chau's PPT about butterfly. It's a great day. I believe you will have a successful lesson for your 3rd week teaching practicum.

Cao Yongxin

Finally, we come to classroom management and differentiation, which are my evry weakpoints for me. Today, Ms Chau have one words which impressed me so much, that is there is no bad student if your student have bad behavior, you should think about what cuase it. There are some reasons, one is your teaching is boring. I do reflect my teaching in the past year. Maybe, it is the reason for my problem, although, what cause it is hard to say or the reason is so complicated. But, to be a teacher, I think I need to give more interenesting instruction to the students. I am so appreciate today's lecture. Glade to know that the Classroom Management is helpful to you. I hope to have more time in this topic becaseu I know most of the Chinese teachers struggle in this part.

Bella(Wei Yang) Another great day! I was so impressive by the science class Mr. Collin gave us and like the way he teaches science. I also pretty like the paper butterfly he taught us how to make. Everybody did a great job! And, thanks very much for Ms. Chau's great lesson on the differentiate instruction, classroom management and multiple intelligence. It helps a lot! Finally, I appreciate a lot our team's fantastic work on the lesson plan and totallly enjoy the talk with other teachers during lunch, which was very informative in many aspects. (PS: I love those beautiful PPT Ms. Chau made and wish to learn more computer technologies from you!) Glade to know Day 4 was a GREAT day for you! I enjoyed so much as well.

Tracy Peng It's another great day. I enjoyed so much in Mr. Collin's science class. We not only learned some scientific knowledge, but also had fun in making a beautiful butterfly by ourselves. The more important thing is that we learned the effective ways to present a topic in class. Ms. Chau is really a very experienced teacher. She shared and discussed with us her classroom management strategies. So useful and effective. I can't helping thinking how to use them in my teaching in the third week. Also our group continued to talk about our teaching plan in details. I like the team work! I think we all learned a lot from each other.

I-Chi Wang Today we had a wonderful science content and standard lesson. The group discussion helped clearfied misconceptions. It's so exciting to observe butterflies life cycles. I enjoyed talking about different age groups of students for classroom management; it helps the teacher to find out the reason for misbehavior. Thank you Ms. Chau for proving the best differentiated instruction lesson I have ever had. It helped me understand learning styles of students and to use the correct strategy to assist them. I was so glade to see that every teacher learned a lot from each other.

Chunyan Wang: Another wonderful day!! it was so fun to listen Mr. Collin's science class,a lot of things would be useful for me to do my lesson plan and how to do the teaching.Thanks again to Ms. Chau, your experience and knowledge impress me so much ,I enjoyed your classroom management demo,so vivid! hope one day I could be a sucessful teacher like you. I learned a lot from every teacher as well.

Belinda Liu-- Today, Mr. Collin gave us a wonderful demo class about the life cycle of butterfly. He used a lot of teaching strategies that Ms. Chau taught us in the last few days. It helped us understand better how to use those teaching methods in the class. He also gave us a lot of ideas and hands-on activities of butterfly. I learned a lot from Mr. Collin as well.

Jubie Ahn We have science expert Mr. Collin's presentation for the four stages of life cycle of butterfly. First, he activated our prior knowledge by asking question and correct some of misconceptions, following with teaching us the contents along with some hand craft activities, Finally, he checked with us if we understand whole process of butterfly life cycle. It's impressed! Also, we learned a lot from Ms. Chau for her experience how to set the classroom rules, execute and manage them in a way to meet or satisfy both American and Chinese culture criteria. Thank you Ms. Chau for your wonderful input, effort and time. Nice work, well done!!! You really SAW how Mr. Collin presented his science lesson!

Yewei Jiang Today's" Class Management "gave me many new ideas on how to conduct a class. Mrs. Chau's newest model of teaching technology was very well applied and left a deep impression for me. I like to use Powerpoint also, special in Science and Social study class. But I never think about I can use this in the class management. Could you please send me your personal classroom management powerpoint through my email yeweijiang2010@gmail.com ? That would save me lots of time when I prepare my own powerpoint for the upcoming school year. I really appreciate your help! I will upload my ppt into this wiki space. I just need to have some time to do that after I end this week.

Ning Wei I feel more and more comfortable about the third week teaching now. At the beginning, a lot of teachers including me didn't know what our students will be like, didn't know how to teach science in Chinese. The demo lesson this morning and the videos you showed us gave us a lot of ideas and clues on designing our lessons for week 3. I also enjoyed working with other teachers on creating rules for certain issues in the classroom. Teaching is a cooperative work, I'm so glade that your team has came out some great idea!

Shan Lou (Shia) 今天已经是第四天上课了，眼看着第一个星期就这样悄然逝去，真是时光如梭. 还分明记得第一次进到教室的忐忑不安. 上午，我们一开始就上课科学课，有点无聊. 我更喜欢周老师讲的课. 因为在她的课堂上我学到了很多我想要学的东西，而且她所讲的都是从她的实践经验中总结出来的，我觉得这些东西非常的宝贵. 当然，我也很感激她能够拿出了和我们一同分享. 期待明天的课程，太阳升起时生命中崭新的一页也将悄悄掀起.

So glade to know that the lesson is useful to you. Yes, time passed so fast...

Ruihong Wu I enjoy Demo science lesson delivered by Mr.Collin this morning. I learned the knowledge about 4 stages of butterfly life cycle from an expert and expanded my English vocabulary. After Mrs. Chao shared more of hre class management skills with us, I felt that as a great teacher, you must be passionated on your job and truly enjoy every moment with students, otherwise you can not become a great teacher but a average teacher.

Yes, you need to have a vision or calling in order to be a GREAT teacher.

Shuo Chen At the beginning of today's class Mr. Colin introduced several activities for us. I think that those are wonderful way to help students to learn. And I found that Colin designed his class very well. He used some theory we learned before, like "I Do, You Do and We Do", "interpersonal, interpretive and presentational" and so on. I also found that the activities involved biology, chemistry and arts. All the things that I mentioned above gave me a good example of class. Ms. Chau taught us the classroom management in the afternoon and shared her classroom rules that made me to remind a lot of unexpected places before. I'm so glade that you learned from Mr. Collin's presentation and I believe you will have a successful lesson for 3rd week practicum.

Mo Geng: I post my reflection last day and I check it is in here, but today when I want to check the reflection of Ms. Chau's reflection, I just knew it is not here! Fortunately, I have original texts on my computer, and I re-posted it again. I believe that Mr. Collin has a lot of experience in science classes, because he gave us very clearly outline of learning objective and a lot of great ideas to effectively instruct students participated in activities of butterfly’s project. Ms. Chau, I very like your Class Management, which includes so many wonderful ideas, and it will stimulate me to use a whole new way to improve and modify my class management. From your demo, I learned a lot teaching strategies.

Sherry Chao It is important for the teachers to have a sense of differentiated instruction. Differentiated Instruction based on the readiness, interest and learning profile. The teacher can differentiate the instruction on content, process and product. We had the class on the butterfly life cycleeggs to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly.