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Journal #6


Journal #6

Yulisa Cardozo Romero

Date: June 7th 2019    

Write a reflection about the classes you oriented this week (bear in mind the following aspects: what you planned, what you did, and what you would do differently if you were to teach your lessons again). Give examples and descriptions of those situations that, in your view, are relevant to your learning experience. 
Taking into account that in the following week students will have their second academic tests, during that week the students only reviewed the topics seen during the second academic term. In order to reinforce and clarify doubts, the teacher presented videos about the topics and some online games related to those. Students liked a lot to watch the videos and even more the games related to the topics. Some students mentioned that they clarified some doubts they had.
Regarding my innovation plan, I have implemented 6 interventions in which I have seen a well behavioral change in first-grade students’. My innovation plan was about a token economy whose purpose is to change student’s behavior. I gave a task per week for students to perform and we agreed on a reward in case they performed the task in an adequate manner, it was to have a class in the park because they like a lot to go outside the classroom. For instance, the first task was to raise their hands when they want to participate. I decided to give this task because when I did an activity and I needed participation students were excited to participate, and all of them wanted to.  The most important condition was that all the students had to perform the task because they had to work as a cooperative group. In that case, some students performed the task adequately but some of them no, so they did not win the reward. In the following week, students had the first and a second new task because those were accumulative. I gave a new task every week. I was a little bit frustrated because in the fourth week they have not won any reward, they performed some task but not the others and it led them to do not win anything, but I had seen a positive change in their behavior. In the fifth week they finally won the reward, we had agreed to see a movie, the movie that they wanted.  They saw the movie and they told that they liked to behave well to have those kinds of rewards.

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  1. AnonymousAugust 3, 2019 at 10:32 PM

    Hello Yulisa! I think it is really nice the way you taught your kids to work in groups in order to get a reward, students do aprecciate that at all ages and feel importan or useful. I understand your frustration, sometimes you really want them to succed fast but we need to always keep in mind to work on our patience. At last, they will manage to do it and you will feel really proud of them!

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