SDLC 105 Learning Journal #10

[Jessica Crouser]

The language teacher workshop was interesting because I had to come up with a concept that would show what I had been learning, but in a way that the other students might actually take something away from it. It was hard to explain a concept, even if it was as basic as the one I did, and expect that any of it would stick for them. I taught basic vowels, which was the first concept I learned, so I thought it would be a good thing to teach for my workshop. I think the biggest difficulty I ran into was time. It took me a while to learn the concept myself, even though it is very basic to me now. To try to relay these concepts to my peers, I first taught it to them using both visuals and sounding out the vowels. Then I had them try to write out the symbols and sound them out as they did it. I figured this was a way to appeal to different types of learning. Then I used Kahoot to see if they remembered any of the concepts, which added pressure to the learning process. If I were to teach a semester-long course, I would probably try to adopt the strategy of teaching the concepts in many different ways to try to appeal to different types of learners.