Reflection

This is a start of a mini project that I'll be doing with these learners. Before I taught this lesson we discussed what we would be doing and this was very engaging for my learners. I introduced the idea of a letter to the learners and from their response I could understand that some of them were familiar with what a letter was and some weren't. I need to stop talking so much and get my learners leading more of the conversations and this is something I'm continually trying to do, I found it hard in this lesson because the idea of a 'letter' was really hard for them to understand. The video doesn't show us talking about how we finish our letter, or much about what we will write in it because I let my learners decide how they would write it. My learners were really engaged in writing their letters and getting them finished and had to be reminded that it was a process that we had to go through or we couldn't build the huts. I left the date and the middle of the 2nd letter out because I wanted the learners to be able to see it and fix it.

Things to note

It was a complete coincidence that Mr Jacobsen (Associate Principal) came into our class but I left it in the movie because it made it real for my learners and gave them more of a purpose and motivation to write. The filming on one camera stopped halfway through so you can see that the 2 camera views stop halfway through the movie. I'm having to constantly move my phone around to capture the audio especially for some of my more quiet learners.