- Does this activity differ from much of the activities you engaged during your K-12 education? How? or How not? Give examples.
A lot of the activities I completed throughout my education were basic, run-of-the-mill, boring worksheets and essays. There was one activity we did in eighth grade that was similar--we had to video conference with an earthquake/volcano tracking lab on an island in the Caribbean, and we had to create a disaster relief and evacuation plan for the island.
- Is your learning style addressed in this activity? How? Give me an example.
Yes, I am a very hands on, creative, and visual learner--this activity would allow me to cut out pictures and research things that I am interested in.
- This project was implemented without the use of textbooks. Are you surprised? Are you interested in teaching in a similar way when you become a teacher?
No, I am not surprised at all. I really hope that I can do a lot of my instruction with limited use of textbooks--I feel like students connect to the material more if it is tangible, rather than written to them from a "I'm better than you" kind of attitude textbooks tend to have.
- What are your concerns and what do you anticipate as being barriers?
A lot of times, with learning a language, there are certain graphs and charts that need to be seen up close by the students in order for them to see the information accurately. I feel like avoiding those charts in a text book would make instruction more challenging for the teacher, but would also connect the students to the information more readily.
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