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ED 640 Reflection Blog 4 This week I gave the students a homework where they chose an organelle and had to find 5 facts about it. I have to say that the standard of work was noticeably higher than usual! I also continued the exercise by having students take precut bits of paper and wander the room to look at other students creations and give feedback. They had three bits of paper and had to say something they liked, something they thought could be improved and ask a question on each sheet and leave it with the homework they were commenting on. The whole thing was great! They were positive and constructive in their feedback, we had a class discussion that continued in the same vein, with many students saying that the feedback was spot on, and even in transition to the next portion of the lesson there were students continuing conversations on the exercise. It bodes well for my intention to increase project work, and with it, the discussion within groups that are required for such w

ED 640 Teaching Reflection – Liam Breathnach It is a strange year in terms of how much is going on with Grad School, little Tommy and keeping going teaching the students, but I am really reflecting on how I can change the normal set up of my teaching to put more onus on the students. I think if I can focus on the skills such as research and note taking then they will be more able to learn the content themselves. With time constraints I am not really implementing new ideas too much but I have a word document set up for recording any ideas for future plans or ideas. This week we had a half day PD day on Thursday and our classes were all shortened. I had not thought about that when planning, so I made a last minute decision to group the students and have them find websites to research organelle functions rather than going through the powerpoint. I was pleasantly surprised how it went! Students were in groups of three with 2 researchers and 1 note taker. I switched the note taking r