Technology refers to the ways of making and doing things by dealing with materials. Since education is always moving forward and is always in reform, teachers should be in reform as well and develop their new methods and new knowledge.
That is why teachers should have technological capabilities such as to handle audio-visual equipment and other technological instruments and tools efficiently and correctly.
As a teacher and before I teach my lesson, I have to prepare the instructional objectives (from the learner’s point of view), the content, materials, activities, closure and evaluation and the appropriate time for each activity and of course to set my goals.
In this portfolio activity, I will teach KG2 how to predict story events and put events in the proper order.
I have chosen a story titled “The Doctor’s Visit” in which students will know more about the doctor.
The materials used are the CD player and photos. My aim behind using the CD player is to help students focus on listening, understand the story, and use their critical thinking in order to predict the story events.
Before I start the story, I ask the students the following questions:
who goes to the doctor?
Are you afraid from the doctor?
Why do you go to the doctor?
Ok! Now we will listen to a story about a girl who was very sick.
The story consists of 5 paragraphs, and after each paragraph I stop to ask the students questions to make sure that they understood the event. On the other hand, I give them time to predict what will happen next.
After the first paragraph I ask the students:
why must Katie stay home today?
What do we do if we are sick?
Do you think that Katie likes to go to the doctor? (predict)
Ok! Let’s see together, and please listen carefully.
The second paragraph shows how Katie was scared to see the doctor. So, I will ask them the following questions:
why was Katie so scared?
What do you think will happen after Katie fell deep asleep? (predict)
Let’s find together what will happen.
The third paragraph tells us about the bad dream that Katie dreamt about the doctor which looked like a very bad witch. I will ask the following questions:
how was the woman dressed?
What color was her face?
What did she carry?
Do you think that this bad dream will let Katie totally refuse to see the doctor?(predict), so let us find together.
The fourth paragraph tells us how Katie’s mom woke her up and told her that this was just a dream. I will ask the following questions:
Who came to visit Katie?
Do you think that Katie will let the doctor come close to her? (predict).
The fifth and the last paragraph shows us how the doctor was gentle with Katie and didn’t harm her. I will ask the following questions:
how did the doctor treat Katie?
Is Katie still afraid from the doctor?
After they finish listening to the story, the students must remember the events (comprehension and analysis) in order to be able to put the story events in order.
I display the pictures on the board and students will come and put them in the correct order.
Conclusion:
Students in this lesson were put in active roles, participating in answering the questions and predicting story events.
The role of high quality representation helped students to get more interested and provided them with things to think and answer the questionings which increase students’ motivation and guide their learning.
And in a class where diversity takes place (different language and different learning styles), we can see that some students will find it difficult to follow up the story on a CD player and to put the events in order especially if the student prefers learning visually.
Finally, we can say that “technology brings the complexities of the real world into the classroom and make them accessible to students.”
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