Model Unit Reflection by Jordan https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua Your thoughts en-us 2016-11-11 06:15:44 UTC 2025-11-11 03:21:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png did i leave the stove on? whew no i didnt https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259373 hi melissa

]]> 2016-11-14 03:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259373 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259423 Students had a hard time connecting or understanding our mentor text - other mentor text suggestions would be helpful before beginning]]> 2016-11-14 03:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259423 Mama Miti https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259435 The students really eoyed the story of Wangar]]> 2016-11-14 03:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259435 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259438 had to do a lot of prep before actually getting started into the model unit because lots of the topics were new to the students]]> 2016-11-14 03:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259438 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259442 The math was challenging to integrate as each math lesson jumped to different strands ]]> 2016-11-14 03:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259442 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259459 The enduring understanding of text was well nderstood ll]]> 2016-11-14 03:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259459 Mama Miti. https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259461 There was a lot of preteaching before getting to the actual  lesson from the model unit. ]]> 2016-11-14 03:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259461 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259504 Students talked about big idea...]]> 2016-11-14 03:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259504 The text was long and a bit hard for students to understand. The conflicts in the story only represented one type of conflict which then needed to be supplemented with other texts. The final task had to be adapted and takes a long time to build up to it. https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259523 2016-11-14 03:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259523 Successful https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259533 Allowed us to be extremely focused ]]> 2016-11-14 03:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259533 Successful https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259553 Allowed us to be extremely focused pedagogically. 

]]> 2016-11-14 03:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259553 Somewhat successful The Lorax https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259584 Too early in the year, students needed more time to learn basic language and social skills necessary for the tasks.]]> 2016-11-14 03:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259584 The re https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259606 2016-11-14 03:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259606 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259610 Common dialogue between students about something bigger]]> 2016-11-14 03:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259610 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259630 activities and texts made it]]> 2016-11-14 03:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259630 The Can Man https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259635 What I found difficult/unexpected (but most definitely paid off in the end) was the amount of time pre-teaching reading strategies and vocabulary to the students I had to do. ]]> 2016-11-14 03:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259635 Sh https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259636 2016-11-14 03:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259636 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - unit was a bit repetitive. Many lessons needed to be adapted for ELL support. So much time needed to preteach vocabulary (vocab that isn't very useful, not words they will likely see again often...) https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259660 2016-11-14 03:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259660 Th jean_benoit_lanca https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259665 2016-11-14 03:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259665 Thougt https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259679 2016-11-14 03:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259679 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259684 Th]]> 2016-11-14 03:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259684 Challenges https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259696 meaningful integration of all subject areas. For us it was easy to integrate geography and the arts, but harder to integrate others.

]]> 2016-11-14 03:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259696 Kinder https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259700 Kinder- we saw that our students needed to build an understanding of who they were in the classroom, at CiS before diving into understanding the community. Oral communication was our focus for this first unit. We will consider the big ideas of the model unit for our second unit/big idea ]]> 2016-11-14 03:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259700 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259701 on paper the model unit is awesome but then actually putting them into a context where there are many ELL students where some of these big concepts might be difficult to grasp was definitely a challenge

]]> 2016-11-14 03:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259701 The 'big idea' or 'enduring understanding' fit very well with our grade level and school. Lots of overlap with GIN and strong connection to Human Geography https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259703 2016-11-14 03:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259703 Thougt https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259715 2016-11-14 03:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259715 Shi-Shi-etko and Shin Chi https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259717 The students were interested in learning about residential schooling and gained a lot of insight into how all voices should be heard. It was a great tool to teach about fairness and equity. ]]> 2016-11-14 03:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259717 I jean_benoit_lanca https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259720 2016-11-14 03:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259720 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind cheryl_clark1 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259725  ]]> 2016-11-14 03:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259725 paring down the unit and picking out the important skills/concepts/ideas https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259726

]]> 2016-11-14 03:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259726 Can Man https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259727 Concept was difficult for students to understand. A lot of tasks needed to be modified or done as a shared or group activity (not a lot of independent tasks). Not always accessible for ELL students. Many topics needed to be pre-taught, especially for Math, so it was a challenge to cover all the lessons in a timely manner. Quite repetitive- students began to get bored of the book and unit. Perhaps better to do in the second term?]]> 2016-11-14 03:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259727 Lunch time? https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259731 2016-11-14 03:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259731 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259741 I wish we had a couple other texts inthe  library to help deepen their understanding beyond the 2 monitor texts ]]> 2016-11-14 03:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259741 The unit did not suit the needs of Vietnamese students ne https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259753 2016-11-14 03:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259753 The Can Man- Grade 4 florence_leung https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259779 The concepts of justice, duty of care, empathy and responsibility are great to learn but they were a bit hard for students to grasp. Some students were able to understand the overall theme but the vocabulary was challenging. 
However, the lessons were repetitive for students.]]> 2016-11-14 03:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259779 I jean_benoit_lanca https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259829 2016-11-14 03:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259829 Students Response https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259832 As a student, its too long. As a teacher, it is hard to keep it within a 6 week unit because of all of the learning needs of our class. There needed to be a lot of pre-teaching before actually diving into the content of our unit.

]]> 2016-11-14 03:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259832 Pair with Earth Day and Clean Up Vietnam https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259836 The book would fit better in the spring when we have environmental initiatives]]> 2016-11-14 03:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259836 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259843 Students are noticing the bigger ideas in the community]]> 2016-11-14 03:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259843 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259850 I liked having an overarching theme for students to connect to, and for us to connect their learning to.]]> 2016-11-14 03:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259850 The Can Man https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259868 The concepts were well received by the students.  They are really excited to take action.
The culminating will be interesting as it is a big undertaking for them.]]> 2016-11-14 03:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259868 Students are really starting to understand what conflict is and how to solve problems in a variety of ways. It has been a main focus in reading and writing. https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259884 2016-11-14 03:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259884 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259899 we had to change around our long range plans to accommodate for the parts of units that the model unit hit (would have been better suited if we did the model unit in the second half of the year/towards the end of the year)

]]> 2016-11-14 03:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259899 The timing of the unit in the school year did not make sense https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259926 2016-11-14 03:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259926 The Can Man https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259928 I found some of the model unit repetitive. There were many tasks that were oriented towards Toronto/Canadian students, and we had to find the Vietnamese equivalent to teach our students the same concepts. 


]]> 2016-11-14 03:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259928 BCIS https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259946 It was very difficult without being able to connect with other relevant curriculum areas (science and social studies). The model units are set up in a great way to connect to the other curriculum subjects, so I feel that they lose a lot of their richness being taught in the purely English setting.]]> 2016-11-14 03:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259946 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259983 Referencing big ideas in various subject areas, for example kids talking about community in french]]> 2016-11-14 03:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259983 A rubric would have been useful for the culminatin https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259994 2016-11-14 03:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137259994 the activities and mentor texts made it easy to differentiate for student needs and ELLs https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260004 2016-11-14 03:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260004 A rubric would have been useful with direct curriculum expectations. https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260089 2016-11-14 03:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260089 The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260164 The]]> 2016-11-14 03:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260164 He https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260290 2016-11-14 03:45:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260290 The Can Man- somewhat successful! florence_leung https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260423 2016-11-14 03:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260423 One Hen: Grade 8 https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260471 Many of the lessons were teacher-centred and somewhat repetitive. Students got tired of discussing the idea of "global citizen]]> 2016-11-14 03:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jordanhart/gmw5j7zyviua/wish/137260471