` `EDU 512 E-Unit Professional Reflection

Provide a thorough answer for each question. Include research from your texts.
1.
Select one Social One of the most useful social studies strategies are the use of graphic
Studies Strategy organizers. These can be used in majority of the content areas we teach. They
from your text and help to reach all students especially our students with learning disabilities and
explain how it can our ELLs. Examples of graphic organize4rs include Venn diagrams and flow
be used to:
charts. These can be used to help students organize information in visual ways.
Extend social
For some students, this visual representation is a way to make meaning of what
studies knowledge they are reading or hearing (Obenchain and Morris, 2015).

Extend literacy Graphic organizers can be beneficial for students when learning tier 2 and tier 3
learning vocabulary words. Furthermore, they help to activate cognitive skills. Using a
Venn diagram can help students to compare and contrast between life long ago
Engage students and life today and many other topics. Students can also use these to compare
at a deeper level data within the U.S. or with other countries.
of learning
Students can learn at a deeper level with the use of graphic organizers. They
are able to learn the core concepts and vocabulary. They help to motivate
students to become more aware of the new words being taught that will be used
in the social studies content area.

Graphic organizers can provide students with a deeper level of knowledge with
the use of interconnection of ideas and help those students construct
knowledge. They can increase a students analysis of specific content areas.

2.
Select one There are many useful literacy strategies in 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step
Literacy Strategy book. I found minilessons to be extremely beneficial in a classroom. There are
from your text and multiple steps to follow. These are especially important for our English learners.
explain how it can These lessons are short and focused on a specific topic. It’s not enough to
be used to:
simply explain procedures, concepts, and strategies or remind students to use
Extend social
them; minilessons are an effective way to teach students how to actually use
studies them (Tompkins, 2013, p. 74).
knowledge,
Teachers can use minilessons for whole group or small, homogenous groups to
Extend literacy extend social studies knowledge. This strategy can offer students explicit,
learning direct, and systematic instruction.
Engage students Minilessons help to support thinking, speaking, and writing. It helps to deepen
at a deeper level
their level of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Reading minilessons help to promote
of learning.
student’s independent reading. They also help to build on previous knowledge.

3.
Feedback: Select Feedback is extremely important throughout lessons. Providing positive
2 strategies for feedback can change how a student looks at a topic or a content area in
providing general. Classmates are also able to provide feedback to their peers when a
immediate student finishes an oral presentation or to help to revise and edit their writing.
feedback on
Through interactions with teachers and collaboration with classmates, students
learning from any
of your texts.
learn things they couldn’t on their own (Tompkins, 2013, p. 6) This strategy is
Provide evidence known as sociolinguistics. Another form of feedback is to check-in with your
that it is research students often while they are actively working on an assignment. You will see
based. instantly if a topic needs to be retaught or if a small group of students will need
extra support.