Task 2 - Collaborative Lesson
Reflection
For the collaborative lesson task, I partnered with a 9th-grade social studies teacher, who was teaching her two advanced classes to conduct research and to write a three-page research paper on the world history topic of their choice. The area of weakness that the teacher and I identified was the fact that students do not know how to write a research paper. Students are not being given the tools with which to conduct research and are not being taught how to use these research tools; therefore, they are ill-prepared for college. During this month-long collaborative lesson, the two classes came into the media center to research and to write their findings using our Chromebooks.
The students’ assignment required them to locate sources, both primary and secondary, in the media center and use the digital research tool, GALILEO, which provided an endless amount of information through professional articles, e-books, videos, and so much more. My input for the collaborative lesson involved the following: (1) creating a Google slide document to teach the students to utilize keywords in research, (2) explaining the definitions of primary and secondary sources, and (3) showing a short video to discuss plagiarism. When the slide show ended, I led a discussion about the legal and ethical issues regarding plagiarism. I then distributed Chromebooks to the students and instructed them log in. I directed the students to the Windsor Forest High School website and then to the media center tab. Under the links tab at the right of the page is a link for GALILEO. I shared with the students the numerous ways in which to search for and to narrow topics using the limiters provided by GALILEO and by the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT.
For the collaborative lesson task, I partnered with a 9th-grade social studies teacher, who was teaching her two advanced classes to conduct research and to write a three-page research paper on the world history topic of their choice. The area of weakness that the teacher and I identified was the fact that students do not know how to write a research paper. Students are not being given the tools with which to conduct research and are not being taught how to use these research tools; therefore, they are ill-prepared for college. During this month-long collaborative lesson, the two classes came into the media center to research and to write their findings using our Chromebooks.
The students’ assignment required them to locate sources, both primary and secondary, in the media center and use the digital research tool, GALILEO, which provided an endless amount of information through professional articles, e-books, videos, and so much more. My input for the collaborative lesson involved the following: (1) creating a Google slide document to teach the students to utilize keywords in research, (2) explaining the definitions of primary and secondary sources, and (3) showing a short video to discuss plagiarism. When the slide show ended, I led a discussion about the legal and ethical issues regarding plagiarism. I then distributed Chromebooks to the students and instructed them log in. I directed the students to the Windsor Forest High School website and then to the media center tab. Under the links tab at the right of the page is a link for GALILEO. I shared with the students the numerous ways in which to search for and to narrow topics using the limiters provided by GALILEO and by the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT.