Daily+Reflections+-+June+14

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 * Share Your Thoughts For the Day!.** **Order by most recent comments on top of the page**

Norman Kao - Day 6 - 6/14 - I found our quilt and thought splash activities the most intriguing. I can probably take advantage of these two along with others, such as exit card in my class. At this point what I am most concerned about is the teaching of vocabulary next week. I have to figure out the use of several among many that I have learned so far.

Grace Hu: Today we learned some new stratergies about differentiated instruction. The part I like the most is that teacher gave us lots of examples where we can use these stratergies in teaching different subjects or contents, very specific and useful! Wish to see more in the next four days! Many thanks to Ms. Hong's generous sharing!

Amy Hilbert—Day 6- 6/14: Today was very thought-provoking. I especially liked comparing teaching to a GPS in that teachers know what the ending destination for students should be and have to adjust the method/directions to help the student arrive at the objective. I also found the discussion/presentation of Differentiated Instruction helpful as there are many misconceptions about it.

Jia Jia: I totally agree with Mr. Wu's reflection on Differentiated Instructure. It is a mission difficult to accomplish though we have known it for long time. Thank Ms. Hong for bringing in this concept, and I hope we could get more examples from her in the following days! Today's teaching strategies and methods are very interesting. "Our quilt", "Thought Splash" and " Task Analysis" are my favorite ones. I believe my students will like them as much as I do when I apply these strategies to language teaching.

Number Head Number Head Number Head **Shelley week2 Day 1**: We started a new chapter today. I already have very strong feelings that this chapter will help me with the information and skills I have been desire to obtain creating the effective curriculums. I like the “Our Quilt” activities and will use it often in my classes. I am sure both students and teacher will be benefited from it. I also have learned that how important “differentiated Instruction” it is. It is a must have concept for all teachers. I also like the “Task Analysis” and “I ** HAVE ** to teach the students” statement. It changed the way how I used to think about the purpose of the teaching.

Jie Ding: It is very nice to see Mrs.Hong again. Today I have learned many new strategies and activities. The assessment strategies that we practiced in class, like the **Concept map**, **Freyer model** and **Thought splash** are very effective ways to evaluate students in reading, understanding and reviewing. I especially like **"Number Head"** and how it lets every student participate. It is very important for a teacher to know about the Differentiated instruction. With more methods to teach students, there are more ways to reach students.

Hai Wu: 今天的课上, 对因材施教进行了系统的分析和研究, 让我懂得了它的总要性并学习了很多方法. 这个问题困扰了我很长时间. 因为因材施教并不是一件很简单的事. 要想真正的在一个20多学生的课堂实现, 需要付出大量的人力, 这也是学校最缺乏的. 今天所学的活动和方法, 拓展了我的思路, 首先, 如何对每一个学生进行正确的评估,并将学生分类, 然后按照不同的要求有结构的布置任务, 而不是给与额外的作业. 就像来餐馆吃饭的客人, 相同的饭量之下,只有依照不同的口味来做菜, 才能让大家都酒足饭饱,心满意足. 还有, 要采用多样化的课堂活动来激发学生的学习兴趣. 今天就学到了很多活动, 比如: Quilt Task, Number Head. Thought Splash, Exit Card 等, 都会使课堂变得丰富多彩. 所以非常感谢老师的教导. 希望今后几天有更大的收获.

Amy Lu: From the well structured lesson today,I learned from Mrs.Hong, as a teacher, you have to think thoroughly ,be prepared for every tiny thing could happen in the class. I like the idea of "our quilt", I think I'm gonna use it for my first class for high school students, although they wouldn't speak any words in Chinese in the first clas, but I can decribe their drawings in Chinese including myself,so everybody gets to know me and each other and Chinese. The "exit card" is a good way to review ,I'm gonna use often in my teaching, mo matter in heritage Chinese school class or private school Chinese cass.

Sherry Lam - I really liked the idea of the quilt game, I believe that this game would be a very effective way to get students to speak up, listen to others, and to get to know each other better. It's good for pre-school learners because of the their age, drawing is the ideal way for them to put their emotions and etc onto a piece of paper. I would suggest to the teacher, if you would speak half of lesson in Chinese and the other half english, to help us better understand the lesson.

Frances Maisonet: Today, we learned about the differentiation of the instructions. I think is important to know the learning styles, abilities, needs and backgrounds of the students. I didn't know that the the % is very low of the students using their auditory learning. I think I can adapt our quilt in many ways for my students. The students need to think of themselves and express it; then pay attention to their classmates and displayed it.

Shaohua Chen: Our quilt accommodates all 4 modalities together, bridges new knowledge to prior ones, very interesting, at the end of the activity we actually got to see the pretty quilt was being displayed. I also like how the differentiation is described as GPS, try to take different ways in order to reach the destination.


 * Fang Liang-June 14: ** Ms.Hong is very professional. I’m going to apply number head to the practicum of last week. Other activities we learnt today are also suitable to be used to teach older students or even adults who have a higher level in target language.

Chaoqiong Wang: 今天老师组织我们玩“介绍自己”的活动，很有意思！在这个活动中，学生的听，说，读，写的能力都有了不同程度的提高. 另外又让我重温了因材施教的教学理论. 以及如何运用在的教学实践中.

Qiongzi Wang: 今天给我印象最深刻的游戏是那个number head和ice break，给学生一个话题，可以用各种方式来练习听，说，读，写的能力. 很有效率的游戏. 谢谢您的辛苦工作！我个人还希望老师可以给differentiate instruction 更加具体的例子，可以给我们具体讲述一下你在因材施教的时候的具体细节，比如说首先调查，有没有比较简单有效的方法，然后如何分组，有怎么样达到分组以后的有效性，怎么样控制课堂的. 谢谢！ ** Yunn Pann ** -- I like **Our Quilt** because every student has to put his/her thoughts down on the piece of quilt (4.5x6), whether it is __drawing__ or __writing__. And then, you __present__ it to the members of your group (~ 5 people), and this involves __speaking and listening__. In the small group, students tape 4 to 5 small pieces of quilts together into a big one (9 x12). In conclusion, one person from each of the small group gets picked by the teacher using the strategy of **Number Head**, and this student __presents__ this 9x12 quilt to the whole group. With Number Head, students will not know who gets picked! Yanni, June 17: Warm-ups and Plot Your Profile are good ways to known your students; Differentiated Instruction is a very effective method for recalling prior knowledge, talking to people, and learning new ideas.

The “Give One, Take One” activity is fun and useful. It can be applied to so many cases, such as vocabulary review, cultural content, and most open questions.
 * Zhe Zhang**: “We have to teach the students we have.” This was the most impressive word to me today. I complained when I encountered students who did not cooperate in class. I also compared them with my previous “better” students and missed the latter so much. Now I know this is not the attitude that a teacher should have.

Jasmine Lin June 14- First day of the second-week training. We experienced another way of getting to know others by putting personal quilts together. Looking at the quilt we made, it tells how different and unique each of us is, so are our students. Each of us comes to this training with different needs and different backgrounds, and each of us is here with different hobbies and learning styles. So, we are invited to intruduce ourselves by the ways we feel comfortable with, listening to others and sharing with others who we are. As a learner, who is also a teacher, in this training, we are called to be sensitive to this issue of differentiation, and we will be equipped with strategies and techniques of differented instructions,which I thinks is what we explored today and are to explore the rest of this week. And then what's next ? You and I all know the answer, we are all going to apply it in real practice. And that's what we are going to do next week. Are we ready for it? I am not sure,but I am working on it!

Ritu Thakkar June 14 - Today I learned about differentiated instruction and activities like give one take one,thought splash, our quilt etc. I like our quilt activity. I think I will use this in my class with the kindergarten kids to introduce their family and their daily routine.


 * Belinda Liu-June 14**-- 今天我主要学习了什么是因材施教. 对它有了比较全面的认识. 也学习了一些方法. 但我觉得对具体如何操作我还是一头雾水，HONG 老师也给我们举了一些例子，但那些问题都是针对我们培训老师的问题，我希望老师能给我们一些具体和学生活动的实例，能够在课堂上用我们作为不同水平的学生来做示范，怎么具体的操纵因材施教. 我特别想知道在教中文的阅读和写作方面如何贯测因材施教的方法. 谢谢.

Geming-June14:我今天印象最深刻的是因材施教，里面的一些题材都是和我们的教学，今天教学给我们提供了如何去实施因材施教的例子，谢谢老师！ wanbin zhang:今天的number head 因材施教对我的启发都很大，尤其是number head 活动是一个非常好的活动，它可以使每个学生都得参与，因为他们都不知道会叫哪个同学发言，他们就得好好的准备，在这活动中，学生能有机会去想，听，写，画和读，同学们可以互相帮助和共享.

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