Teaching Strategy of Creatring Mental Term Paper

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We talked in class about the things a flat person would have trouble doing and the dangers that a flat person might encounter.

The parts of decorating and sending the flat person worked because it allowed children of all abilities and educational needs to become involved with the project and have a hands on approach to the story.

The areas where I feel the lesson was weak included the testing of the story comprehension through written testing. The children are still learning to correlate storylines to ideas and some of them had difficulty moving to the next strategy of teaching with regard to the story.

When I do this project next year I will incorporate some music that can relate to the story so that children can learn to imbed the story in their minds through the memory of lyrics and musical notes that go with it.

The children did grasp the concept of mental imaging as was evidenced in the discussions about their individual flat people and the adventures and difficulties they encountered on the trip.

During the lesson I learned that my children are more knowledgeable about the world than I thought they were. This was shown during the discussions of where the children hoped their flat people got to go on their adventures and many overseas and historical American areas were mentioned and explored.

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A learned a lot about myself during this lesson including the fact that I can create mental images in the minds of my students by using art and other hands on experiences.

The children's eagerness to hear the stories about the flat people as they returned surprised me as did their ability to relate those experiences to the story of Flat Stanley. One child upon hearing about her flat person falling behind her uncle's stove wondered out loud why the author of the book didn't have Flat Stanley fall behind a stove. She understood the author was in control of Stanley's destiny.

The lesson benefited the children by providing an extended learning opportunity to explore the world through flat people trips.

The lesson benefited me by helping me realize how important it is to use all learning styles in a lesson so that the lesson reaches every student......

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