Daily+Reflections+-+June+15

chaoqiong wang: (6/15 ) The four levels qusetions is very good theory ,this activity helps me to ask questions in different levels.Before,I just ask questions withouy thinking the two facts and a fib is agreat way to help students practice listning writing,and every one must finfsh the work sheet and facts and fib,This activity is fun.

Frances Maisonet - I liked the gallon guy to use it with adjectives, synonyms, antonyms, coins and parts of the plant. The 3 cornered flashcard is good for addition and subtraction. It was good to understand the 4 levels using questions. I can use the open sort in different categories on my classroom. During the simile activity, I had an AHA moment because finally I understood the activity.


 * Norman Kao** – 6/15: I chose to use gallon guy activity for my fridge magnet, as it almost can be used for all subject matters. Of course I enjoyed the question stem activity too. It makes people to see things and think differently and train students to put questions in category. For my grade, I think the first two seem to be a good starting point.

Veronica Garrido, 6/15: Today's activities and ideas delivered by Mrs. Hong were significantly important. I like the fact that most of the ctivities can be modified and then applied to different subject areas like for instance Three Cornered Flashcard, Gallon Guy, Word Sort, the admition ticket (which was one of my favorite) and the four level questions. I also enjoyed the time dedicated to the preparation of the activities for next week.

Lydia Ling: My favorite part of today's lesson was the low-prep, high-impact strategies, materials & activities in content area instruction. I definitely think that that will help benefit my future teaching.

Jia Jia: The "Question-Answer Relationship" was a good idea of designing reading comprehension activity for students. I have gotten used to the multiple activities from Ms. Hong today. I appreciate her hard work on preparing all of the activity worksheets for us and demonstrating the great ideas of teaching strategies and activities. Other interesting activities for me today are the reading chart and "two facts and one fib". I did this one in my classroom before, and will do more with my students in future. It really could got students involved and be confident about what they retrieve from the information on listening and reading.


 * Yewei**: Today's class made a significant impression on me - the strategy of two facts and a fib. I think this can enhance a child's reading and listening abilities, even for adults. When reading and listening, if they do not concentrate, they can not successful with this game. Thank you, Mrs. Hong.

Amy Hilbert—Day 7; 6/15: The important points for me today were the open sort with the jigsaw activity and the admit ticket. The admit ticket is a practical assessment for the teacher to see what the student is remembering as well as a self-assessment for the student (I do remember something from yesterday). The prompt questions can be designed to solicit information from all students, so again, there is full participation. I can see many ways to use the jigsaw/open sort combination activity in the classroom. That is a very student –centered, engaging way to get students thinking, evaluating, and justifying their responses/category choices. I really like that activity combination and 3 facts and a fib. That is really a good example of making learning fun because kids enjoy the fib part!

Amy Lu: There is no need to say, every activity Mrs.Hong taught us today will be very useful and meaningful. Mrs.Hong is teaching us teaching methods by practicing them, but I'm thinking, if we had more time to design some activities we are gonna use in our classroom, no matter it's for the practum week or for the new school year, through sharing, everybody would go back home with something you can use right away,it may even save some prep time for the new school year.

Grace Hu: "The 4 level questions" inspired me how to ask students to think and put their thoughts as questions. This way not only help the student to think deeper and broader, but also help others to think from different angles, or from different perspective of view. Sometimes you may find good questions from students and ask all the students to think about how to answer these questions. This teaching method was hardly used when I was a child back in China. It really shows that the essence of education is not only teach kids the right answer, the more important thing is to teach them how to think and find the answer by themselves.

**Shelley week2 Day 2:** Absolutely an “eye and mind open session’! I will use “Three Cornered Flashcard”, “Gallon Guy”, “Word Sort” and “listening first and comparing notes with peers” (2facts 1 Fib) activities in my classes. How brilliant they are. I will keep the “The 4 level questions” in my mind and will work on identifying the appropriate questions for my different level, age, and background students. I also enjoyed the group discussion and preparation sessions. It worked out very nicely (very helpful).

Jie Ding: The content area instructions of Low-prep, high-impact strategies and activities gave me many ideas. I especially liked **Gallon Guy** and **Three Facts and a Fib**. I will use them in teaching language, science, math, culture and other lessons. Thank you Mrs. Hong for giving us such useful and effective example of activitives. I am looking forward to learning more activities tomorrow and working on the lesson plan with our team for next week's practice teaching.


 * Fang Liang-June 15: ** I like Gallon Guy and the Four Level Questions. As we have discussed in the class, Gallon Guy can be adjusted in many ways to meet different needs. This is a pretty productive activity. As for the Four Level Questions, I think for higher level learners, we can add reading materials into it instead of only using pictures. Oh, I noticed that sometimes we do not have enough time to finish every activity. But maybe these activities can be introduced briefly without carry all of them out. Not sure whether this is feasible. But anyway, this is just my suggestion ^_^

Wanbin Zhang: i really like the activity jigsaw-word concept sort ,i think that is a good way to review the words we learn in the topic! We can let the kids to group them ,or they can also use the words to make sentences. It's funny! Thank you!

Qiongzi Wang:今天课堂上的很多活动给了我启发，特别是对于differentiate instruction的操作上有很多感受,你可以按照学生的不同的水平去给学生不同的要求. 个人最喜欢的是那个admit slip.因为学生可以按照自己的水平选择自己可以回答的答案， 甚至我们还可以鼓励孩子们多回答一些问题. 然后给孩子的票的性质可以是贵宾票等等. 这样还可以鼓励孩子们去challenge themselves! 个人有一个疑问的地方是，如果给孩子们同样的Material，对于刚进班级，和已经进来学习两年的孩子肯定会有不同要求，那么我们如何清楚地衡量他们是否达到了这个要求， 那么么这个要求能够把他们定量和定性下来吗.

Fang Yuan: The Question and answer relationshil is a great activity, because we can use the four levels questions for different level language lewarners. The learning pyramid helps me to think about how to use the strategies comprehensively. This theory also helps me to think about the age of the students. Because different age students will need different strategies. The Galleon Guy activity can be used by many topics. Thank you! Ms. Hong!


 * Yunn Pann**, Tuesday, June 15: I like **2 Facts & 1 Fib**. First, students have to __listen__ so they can __write or draw__ down the information that is at their level. Next step is for them to be in a group of two, and __write__ two sentences that are true and one false, and see if your partner can tell __(listen and comprehend)__ which one is true. Or, for a lower level, you can even give them 3 simple sentences and have them group two similar sentences together. Anyway, it demands some __thinking__ and/or __writing.__ I also like **Question Stems**. It makes me think of more ways to ask related questions.

Jasmine Lin - June 15, 2nd day of the adventure to Differeniated instruction. I loves all those hand-on activities that Mrs. Hong gave us today. And the one I like most is the Admit Slip, it give students, especially slow thinkers, time to recall, think, digest and then express their own viewpoints. I definitely would like to make it a daily routine in the class for students to go back to recall what they have learned and encourage them to think and express.

Zhe Zhang: I used to spend a lot of time for the next day’s class. But sometimes it didn’t go as well as I expected. The students did not always actively and happily engage themselves in class. Today I learned that teachers don’t have to exhaust themselves to teach well. Low preparation can also yield high impact. The key word is, using right activities. I don’t need to control everything to every detail. The students can learn by themselves very efficiently, as long as I give proper guidance. Among the activities we did today, I like “Two Facts and a Fid” very much. When I learned English, my teacher used it to let us talk about ourselves. Ms. Hong’s idea that combines such a strategy with listening/reading comprehension is very inspiring.

Ritu Thakkar - I like the concept of Admit Slip. It is very important to review before starting the new lesson. I think this is the best activity to practice the old text. "Question stem" activity will be helpful in learning sentence structure. We can apply this activity in kindergarten grade to practise 什么，哪儿，吗 words.

Yanni: It is very important for teachers to ask right questions for dfferent level students. If students can't answer the questions which beyond their knowledges, it will not encourage student to learn. In the class, I learned what kind questions are propriety to ask for your student. It is very helpful!