Day EIGHT

Today we talked about backward design. I have to admit when I saw we would be talking about lesson plans today I cringed because I have had such terrible experiences with lesson planning. But Dr. Huang did a phenomenal job taking away that dread and fear with her teaching and positivity. She also made me feel like she really understands the struggle of lesson planning. I liked how she took time to listen to problems the teachers personally had with lesson planning and was honest about what she could and could not help with. I loved her activity that had us create a lesson plan for a nutrition lesson. That helped me so much with understanding the different parts of the lesson plan template. I get so confused about the differences between "understandings", "essential questions", etc. and doing the lesson plan on a topic we all knew something about helped me understand the process better.  I also thought the Immediate Feedback Assessment Tool and think it would be a great tool to use for my Introduction to Spanish class. I specifically think it would be good to use for the lesson on Why learn  foreign language and in my animal unit for the Animal sounds lesson.

Loved how today was about so much culture! We got to speak with a teacher in India via skype. That was so cool getting to see the similarities and differences between the culture and the school systems. Also I loved hearing Dr. Huang talk about China and go through her picture tour. I think it is important for teachers to know something about many other cultures, especially with there being students from those cultures because it helps us understand the people better by knowing the differences in their cultures.