Casey's+Post-Curriculum+Reflection

__What Worked __ __What Didn’t __
 * I like the ties in to literacy…like Dave mentioned starting with PIE was a familiar topic, that the kids know all about, and building from there, especially because this groups benefits from constant review
 * Note catchers helped to keep some students focused, but we needed to emphasize them more to keep all students with us
 * I think the ads we chose really got their attention and were engaging: boy drowning- shocking, old school hair ad- seems old fashion, ASPCA- evokes emotions, etc.
 * I like that we went to strategies for reaching target audiences, to pull them away from the “right there” specific “it says this” in MY ad…to the overall what strategy did the author use to reach someone/make someone feel something
 * Circulating around the room and helping students…this group does much better one on one, getting direct feedback
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I really think we had way too much in this lesson…next time I would break it into 4 days/parts: Part 1 Author’s Purpose and Target Audience modeling/guided practice, Part 2: Author’s Purpose and Target Audience independent practice/maybe some group work, Part 3: Diabetes and Audience modeling/guided practice, and Part 4: Diabetes and Audience independent/group work
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I noticed the students not getting a clear understanding of what we were trying to teach because there was too much and we assumed they knew more about ads than they actually did
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I prefer doing things in more depth, so instead I would limit the ads to only 3 and do these (like I said above) all together as a class and really unpack everything we could about them and then slowly release the students to doing it independently…I think this way they would know what the process/expectations were and hopefully understand/focus more…for example- it was clear with the ASPCA ad that we should have spent a MUCH longer time not only modeling it but simply talking about all the parts and what they mean first…we did a brief synopsis on the fly trying to give some background knowledge, but that should have been the very first thing we did instead of jumping into to work with it…same thing with the other ads, making sure they totally “get them” first then analyzing them
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Behavior- I know this has nothing to do with PVK, but I’m just putting it out there that I think the students in that class miss A LOT of learning because they are not focused….I tried to use “wait time” and ask them specifically to sit up, give eye contact, etc. because I think that is SO important
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Ok back to PVK things: I think we should have emphasized the fact that all of these ads were persuasive and that was the focus of the day…and constantly reiterate that point…starting with PIE got them thinking about all 3 but then we should have made it clear that now we are narrowing it down to just persuasive
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The diabetes part at the end was TOO rushed and the students were lost…again spending more time guiding them through it before releasing them would have cleared up some misunderstanding…also providing a quick diabetes review before going there would have been helpful to let them know we were switching tracks and get their minds back to thinking about diabetes…then go into target audience and like you said through discussion have students connect and relate to the feelings of the different audience…we did a superficial job on this part…boo <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">L
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Should have given students the posters that were hanging on the wall with their ad, so that they could write their noticings and strategies right on it…I think this would have been helpful for some students to make it more concrete…for example: if I had the drowning ad I could literally draw an arrow to the boy on the bottom of the pool and write “this kid looks like he is drowning…that is scary” then in a different color “I think the author did that to get parent’s attention, so that they make sure they watch their children in the water”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I agree with Dave's point about needing more connections between the text and the students…again I think slowing down and really OVER-explaining things and modeling our own thinking gets this group of students to that level, so that everyone is on the same page, listening to each other and making connections…I felt that we had a few times where students were on totally different pages with what was going on in our lesson