Tuesday Learning log

What we did today:

For our whole block today, Ms. Lees gave us time to work on our group concept maps. As we were doing that, she went to each group to see how we we’re doing and gave us hints on how to improve our map. Ms. Lees did that because she also wanted to make sure that everyone was doing equal amount of work. We also discussed with our groups on the new information we researched yesterday that can be put on the map. Most of the groups are close to done on doing the good copy in pencil. She will give us another block tomorrow to work on it. We are expected to have not only information on it, but pictures and diagrams to also represent our work. Towards the end of the block, we filled out our group evaluation sheet. This evaluation sheet is separated into four columns and they should be filled in with your own opinions on how you did today. This is the titles for the four columns that you should be filling in about.

-Tell your idea?

-Ask questions?

-Listen respectively?

-Keep the conversation going?

Why we did it:

We did the concept maps in groups and in class because Ms. Lees wants us to work on our communication skills. For example, we worked on our listening skills, our cooperation skills and our questioning skills today. In the future, you will need this skill for many jobs or even interviews. We also did concept maps to learn how to display the information in a neat and effective form. Doing a concept map can also help a visual learner. We did an evaluation sheet today so we would know if we were on track of time and did our part of the work. If you did a good job in class today, filling out the evaluation would be very easy since you would have lots of proof to support yourself.

Connections/ Reflections

Marvy- I understand the criterias needed to get a good grade on this project. I also understand that communication skills are very important in your life.

Learning to do an effective concept map can help you in other projects in life. Also working on communication skills can help you with interviews/ getting jobs or even just in your daily life. Think of this. If you were a manager of a company hiring one person to work for you, would you choose someone that has strong communication skills or one that has a weak one?

Homework/ tips

· Concept map are due this week

· Course selection sheets should be handed in

· Go to flex or make a schedule with Ms. Lees if you haven’t finish your paragraphs yet

· Research for more ideas to add on to you concept map

· Make sure you are caught up with the work in humanities

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