alia kasem reflection

Hello Dr. Murray'
This is Alia Kasem. Here is my first reflection.
Alia Kasem 8/29/07
EDG 4467 8/30 /07
Five hours.

My Reflection


In my first week of service learning hours in Mr. Hunt, third grade classroom, I noticed some of Vygotsky’s developmental theory. Mr. Hunt arranged the desks in the classrooms in a way that all students can see the board clearly, in the mean time, Mr. Hunt can move between the rows easily.
For morning class work, he gave the students with a sheet of paper divided into five sections. Each day they do one section of Brain Storm Math problems. He used this method to avoid the noise and the laziness.
This week was testing week. Students were tested on dibbles, fluency, special services, and star reader for the accelerated reading on the computer.
Students were learning about Median, Mode, and Range in the Math subject.
Mr. Hunt gave the students a hint to remember what the mode means. He said mode is “most”, and kept repeating mode, most number appeared in the series of numbers.
Mr. Hunt used the Vygotsky’s concept of zone of proximal development based on the idea of children can learn from self by working individually and from other student or adult. He broke the class into groups of four students to work on the math work sheet. Then, they went over it together.

September, 6th, 2007
2 hours
Teacher was teaching grammar. Four students were lost and not doing anything because they are lazy and careless about doing class work. They misplaced their papers and had not been doing the grammar class work for three days in a row.
I worked with two while they were in their seats. I fel that they need to be pulled out and put together in a corner of the class so I can talk to them louder. Do you think I can do this?
The teacher was very experienced in egnoring the minor misbehaves of the students. He thinks that the students will catch up with the class rules when no body gives them the attention when they misbehave.
I learned from Mr. Hunt, that to make the lesson interesting, make it authintic.
Alia Kasem