Writing a Reflection                                                             Name: Khuloud Ali

Select Literacy is the most difficult lesson to me. I had a student in my focus group; he didn't know the difference between D and P. I couldn't know how to explain  him that D is different than P. I was trying to explain it to him by saying Ahmed this letter is different than that letter. He wasn't looking at me.     Ahmed when he putted the letters together to make the word,

Describe At Al-Dewan  Kg, I had to have a training in KG1 class. I had to teach literacy, which I have never planned for literacy lesson but this time.It was difficult to describe the lower case for D and P. Ahmed insisted that those letters are the same. I asked him to look again and again, but honestly, I didn't know how to describe it.Eventually, I told him look at the circle! Where is the circle of the letter here.  However, deep inside I felt bad, I knew this wasn't enough to let the child know the differences. Analyze I think that occurred because the activity showed lots of letters and written at cubes, and the cubes were easy to swap. I think if the letters were written in steady places, such as papers or boards, or even with an arrow to show where do the letters end  and start.

Appraise Children see things in their view,when I asked Ahmed why do you think it is the same, he said because it is the same. I asked him for the third time, and he said they look the same. As a teacher, I should show him the difference not to tell him that he was wrong. As a teacher, I should support his thinking and see where his level is and build on it. However, it is a good thing to have him very confident and I showed keep up his confidence. According to Piaget, students see things from their views and they believe in them. According to Malaguzzi, children are different and there are hundred languages of children.

Transform For the next lesson, I will practice with them the letters and let them form it, I will let Ahmed to explore these letters, by giving him the letters in capital and small and provide him with hands-on activities such as writing on a shaving cream. However, Mohammed is getting better. I was using with him that strategy and it is really working. He was exploring the well behave and trying to be a good leader and a teacher.

To Sum up, I was very happy of my lesson, because the students were very engaged. The technology issues didn't stop me from running my lesson. I'm happy because one of my aims  came true. Which was to be confident.