CRITICAL REFLECTION

Partial learning

 

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(Math activity) Grape painting:

Aim: Join together two groups to show addition.

Using sponge’s grapes to create a grape with green and purple paints.

Provide picture instruction of how many green and purple grapes they need to print.

The teacher will go through each step with the low ability group. E.g. take the grape up put it in the red paint now lets print it in the paper here.

The low group will work on combination to 5 or 6.

1.      Use picture flash card of Handas to introduce the activity

2.      Use divided plate to separate two kinds of small plastic fruits. e.g. yellow and green.

3.      Ask the children to count the fruits in each part of the plate

4.      Ask the children to count how many fruits altogether?

5.      If the total number was from 1 to 5 or 6 ask the children to take a risk on trying to write the number.

 

Describe:

The student liked the activity but it was hard for them to understand what they have to do. In other words, they should follow the activity structures. Because

1.      I said all the instructions in one time the children take part of my instructions and left the other.

 

2.      I have not asked the children to count the two groups together so I did not achieved my learning out come because they were counting not adding .

 

Analyze:

1.      I should give them small part each time of instructions and let them apply it then I move to the next instruction.

 

             (I have broken the steps down and I asked them to apply each step before we move to the next step).

2.      I should ask the children how many green grapes and how many purple grapes and then count them altogether. To achieve the learning out comes one out of four. 

 

 

 

Transform:

The time needed more management especially when I have difficult activity like this one. Because I will lose the time trying to model and help the students understand and follow the right steps. So in the next time I will have simple activity that match the learning out comes and the children easily understand and spend the rest of the time doing it many times to understand the concept.