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Teaching Flashback!

I taught a language arts lesson where students were to identify the beginning, middle and end of a story. It was taught using a thematic approach being 'pirates'. I dressed up as a pirate and the introduced lesson with a poem about what pirates do. This was followed by a story I composed entitled 'The Pirate's Treasure'. Students were asked questions about events which took place. and learned to identify the beginning, middle and end of that story and any story they come across. 

I believe the lesson was a success and the students enjoyed it immensely!

Regards
 

Hello Viewers,

My name is Tobitha Fontenelle a second year student at the Division of Teacher Education and Educational Administration. Over the past semester we have been learning about the writing process in our LIT102 course. We looked at five genres of writing namely: Narrative, Descriptive, Poetry, Persuasive and Expository writing. 

As part of our LIT102 assignment we were required to complete a Podcast using one of our pieces for the purpose of story telling. I have decided to do a podcast on a Cinquain I wrote about Verbs. This poem was written for a grade two audience for the purpose of teaching them about Verbs. I invite you to sit back and enjoy this short piece by clicking on the link below.

Regards,

Tobitha

Mini Lesson Reflections

For the last few weeks of our Lit 102 classes we were engaged in some mini micro-teaching where we were all placed in groups and had to prepare a lesson to teach on the various stages of the writing process. Teaching a mini lesson was new to our group members and the majority of the class. The first group who went selected the topic and the genre of writing. The topic selected was a Christmas theme and the genre chosen was a descriptive piece of writing. Most of the lessons taught were fun while and engaging and demonstrated the correct way in which the various stages of the writing process must be taught. However, a few groups failed to model to the students which can in turn create the students obtaining misconceptions about the writing process. What really out about this lesson for us was the fact that we were allowed to give each other feedback about the lesson. This in turn helps to improve our skills and knowledge as upcoming teachers. I must say that some groups had very limited time to prepare their materials to teach these lessons as we were required to use the piece of writing from the previous group. There we are of the view that adequate time must be given to successfully execute various lessons.

All in all this teaching experience was nothing but a learning opportunity for us.

Nasha Bailey's Podcast

Hello Bloggers

The semester here at the Division of Teacher Education and Educational Administration is almost at an end. To conclude all coursework, a podcast reflecting one of the writing genres extracted from my writing portfolio was created.

Please sit back and enjoy.

Best Regards

Nasha Bailey's Podcast

To view my podcast video, please follow the link below and allow 15 seconds to load:

http://www.powtoon.com/embed/eF4h8ZYnIKY/

Carina's LIT102 Podcast

Carina Snagg's LIT102 Podcast

Click on the link to view the Podcast: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By-yuCOcX29BYUFDcm8zM2FVV09EbnFZQ25MTEl0S2wtYTRn/view