Week 6 Reflection

This week I tried to implement some different techniques in the classroom. Recently I have gotten used to teaching the class as more of a lecture but this week I decided to incorporate some more activity based lessons. I was very happy with how the students responded to the activities. Over the course of the week I ran a demonstration of osmosis using an egg. The students interacted very well with me and it seemed liked the visual and hands on demonstration got through to them. I also tried to empower the students by having them teach each other. One day I placed them in groups and assigned each group an organelle. They had to then research their assigned organelle and create a poster. They presented their posters to each other thereby teaching everyone about all of the parts of the cell. I liked this because rather than me standing up front and telling them about the organelles they all worked together to learn about them. Again I think the activity and interaction in the class worked well with my students.