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Emotional Wellbeing Information
During my time at St. Clair College, I completed a health fair within the college. My group focused on students’ emotional well-being and how this can affect their learning. This is one of the informational pages we provided. Throughout the semester we focused on several topics including the emotional, physical and mental health of students of different ages.
I continued to further my understanding and knowledge of how students meoti9onal and mental health can affect their behavioural and academic actions. When continuing on to the university I enrolled in several other courses through both the education department and the Psychology department. I continued to try and gain as much knowledge about this topic as possible. The completion of these courses has allowed me to put these practices into my teaching. I try my best to put my student’s emotional, mental and physical needs at the forefront of my planning and presenting lessons.
Time Lesson Plan
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Qnx4APUHn1fJqoP7y5gx7eP_IFoJuGPSVSMEL2yNLA/edit?usp=sharing
During my first year at the Faculty of Education, I was given to opportunity to tutor a grade four student. During my time tutoring them, we focused on Time, which they were completing this topic at school. The tutoring with this student went well and by the thrid week of tutoring they had a great understanding of how to tell time and was completing more complicated times.
When creating these lessons for the grade four student I had to become creative with the lesson due to the fact this tutoring took place during COVID-19, and I did most of the tutoring virtually. This caused me to have to think of ways to keep the student engaged and focused when I could not be there to help them regain focus. I quickly learned that teaching the student as if you were in person would not be very effective while online. I found ways to adapt to the situation and help the student learn this topic. Creating these lessons taught me that as teachers we must learn to adapt very quickly to new opportunities or challenges.
When reflecting on this lesson, I noticed that my lessons tended to be too long for the time frames given. In this lesson, I went over the one-hour mark when we began playing the game of BINGO. The lesson went overtime not only due to there being too much to complete during this time but also due to technical difficulties and struggles. This taught me that while having too much to do may not be a negative thing always, it is important to prioritize the information and learning. This has also taught me that when creating lessons I must allow some extra time during those periods of getting new materials or going onto a website.
One area of my lesson I think went well was when the student was completing a worksheet. The worksheet provided was rows of blank analog clocks. The student was provided with times and they were to write them correctly on the worksheet. While this was a bit of a struggle to do online, the student was able to complete this portion of the lesson with confidence. The student was nervous at the beginning, however, once they started to write them correctly they became confident in their ability. At the end of the lesson, they were able to fill out the KWL chart without any issues.