Cassandra's Journey through Social Studies

In today's class we had a mock job interview. This was a way to role play instead of giving a final and I thought it was a great way to not get us so overwhelmed with a final but also to prepare us for he future! All of the administrators did a really great job!! They all dressed professional and acted professional as if it was real, and I really loved that. Amanda did really well with her questions. I thought the questions made us think critically and they weren't questions that were "yes" or "no" or one word answers, but they made us explain ourselves and use examples from class and fieldwork experience. I liked her question about if she was a fly on the wall and how our future classroom would look. It was a fun question to think about to make us less nervous but also got a look into our minds to see how we are planning for the future. Another question I really liked was the one about if we had to choose a color how would it reflect our philosophy of t...

This NAT project was a very good way to reinforce the ideas we learned in fieldwork about how to create engaging lessons. Although it was not as in-depth as fieldwork, we still got to practice how create powerpoints and create interactive activities. One of the main things I'm learning show to condense my slides and speak from what I know rather than reading off a board. Reading off the board is very boring to students and isn't useful when you want them to remember it. To get the students involved in the lesson, by group and I found a "Just Dance" video about Lakota music for students to participate in. This way the students are up and moving and will remember the Lakota clothing by seeing the character dancing and will remember their music and dance by interacting with it. This is great to do with young students because they love to be active and many of them are really  good dancers at that age ! In one of the readings it described that to get students motiv...