Task 3 Reflection

1. Share the web address url of your groups ScreenR presentation.

Group 2 Pueo - Final PBL ScreenR presentation

2. Reflect on your contributions and how you contributed to making your group a success?

Throughout the course of this semester, I've been facilitator/leader for my group 3-4 times, presented our PowerPoint on Authentic Assessment, put together the blog for our current events a few times, did my forums, and encouraged and praised my fellow Pueo members. With every assignment, I tried my best to turn my part in on time so we could finish our assignments by the due date.

Task 3-6 Reflection

1. Why is it important to use teams in PBL?

 Problem Based Learning mimics real life situations that students may encounter. Working in team or working collaboratively are skills they will need to use later in life such as job assignments and college group presentations. Since PBL strives to make the scenario as real as possible, using teams is a logical choice.

2. What are some of the problems you see in student teams?

Possible problems that may occur in student teams include clashing of personalities, students who do the work and students who do not, time management, conflicts in how to do the assignment, and who is the leader and assigns each person a job.

3. What strategies can you use to manage conflict in student teams?

Assign a leader for each task or week, use peer and self evaluations, and have students talk it out with the teacher as the mediator (not the problem solver. Students need to learn to resolve conflicts on their own sometimes).

4. Did the group have any questions or problems this week?


Not really.

Task 3-5 Reflection

1.    What ideas have you contributed to your team this week?

I suggested using a rubric program for our assignment this week.

2.    What role did you play on your team this week?

I was this week's team leader and facilitator.

3.    How did you encourage and support your team members this week?

Little things like "great job," "that's a good idea," etc.

4.    Did the group have any questions or problems this week?

No.

Task 3-4 Reflection

1.    What ideas have you contributed to your team this week?

I suggested we Skype our meeting because it's easier to explain things by talking rather than typing.

2.    What role did you play on your team this week?

I was in charge of making the slides for the portfolio assessment and doing the ScreenR presentation.

3.    How did you encourage and support your team members this week?

I helped support my group by finishing my assignment on time and encouraged my team members to keep doing our best.

4.    Did the group have any questions or problems this week?

Did the ScreenR presentation have to be exactly 5 minutes? Group 2's ended up being more like 4 minutes and 50-some seconds.

Task 3-3 Reflection

1.    What ideas have you contributed to your team this week?

I got my team started on ideas for our scenario and we've worked on adding more details to our scenario.

2.    What role did you play on your team this week?

I was in charge of writing/keeping track of our guiding thoughts.

3.    How did you encourage and support your team members this week?

By giving little comments/encouragement like "great idea," "you did a good job on that," or "I like that idea." I helped support my team by getting my part done on time and sending a member the chat log from a meeting she was unable to attend.

4.    Did the group have any questions or problems this week?

We apparently forgot the part about including technology to assist our students in their learning, but I think we've got that fixed now.

Task_3-2 Reflection

1.    What roles did the members of your team have this week?

 

I was the facilitator this week. Kaleo and I had Question 1 and Shannon and Makana had Question 2. Shannon reserved our meeting time. Makana did the SLO form.

 

2.    Given your role in the group this week, how did you contribute to group?

I facilitated for our current event, helped come up with SLO suggestions, and brainstormed with the group about our PBL lesson plan subject and grade level.

3.    What worked well this week?

 We all knew a little more about what we were supposed to get done this week as opposed to last week's craziness. Shannon did well taking charge while Makana and Kaleo were encouraging and kept us on track.

4.    What will you do differently next time.

 I think we definitely should get started earlier in the week if possible to be sure that we have everything done by the end of the week.

Current Event Week 11

This is an article that is sort of like a lesson plan that I found on scholastic.com.

Student Led Parent Teacher Conference

This lesson plan shows teachers a way to have students be more involved with their PT conferences. This teacher is a supporter of student led parent teacher conferences because it helps relieve students' anxiety, lets the student reflect and be responsible for their academic progress, helps students develop better speaking skills, and might help increase parental involvement/attendance to the conferences.

Basically, this teacher lets students use PowerPoint to show how they feel they are doing. They give themselves a letter grade on life skills that are used in class (i.e. - focus, respect, following directions, responsibility, etc.). Students are also allowed to list their strengths and moments they are proud of and they are allowed to ask for help from their parents and teacher (i.e. - they don't feel like they are really good at reading and would like extra help).

Our group liked this article because one of us actually experienced a student led parent teacher conference where their child prepared a speech and showed their work. They were more comfortable because they were able to show Mom their work and weren't as anxious about the conference.