Today was our last economics class with Kelly until we have finished with practicum, it seems crazy to say but October is our next class (we will almost be provisionally registered teachers by then). Anyway we started the day in our usual fashion with a DO NOW a very good routine we read an article and discussed it amongst the class, the article was on ICT and the use of cell phones in the classroom very interesting reading, we then had a discussion about how to transfer files from computer to cell phone and vice versa, Rena bought in few items she had at home and gave us a brief description off how to use them and where to buy them.
The focus off this lesson was on unit plans that we had created in our groups, each group was given an opportunity to present there plan and was given feedback on the quality and ideas that they had put across. I enjoyed listening to each different group and seeing the different styles and approaches evident in the unit plans, it also gave me further ideas for when I am teaching this subject. It was also interesting to note the group dynamics and again gave me a small insight into how each student operates within a group and how they contribute.
Unfortunately not every group got there full allocation of time and Kelly had to cut the last two groups short, we were given more paper (seems to be a never ending supply) and ushered on our way. It was good to here that the quality of our group work is some of the best Kelly has seen, gave us all a shot in the arm as we head into practicum.
Thursday we moved onto growth and what is required to teach this unit to year 12 students. Anne gave us an article which we were required to come up with ten uses for in an economic classroom the article was on the Russian wheat crises and the subsequent ‘Grain Reaction’, that was about as far as my group got with the article (sorry Anne) anyway we did come up with some activities that I could be used for ideas such as (summarising, removal of headline students to decide on the headline for the article, role play/debate, flow on effects students to decide who it impacts, 3 level guide and others) this just showed the many uses for article that isn’t just read and answer questions.
We now move onto growth discussing what important info the students need to understand, the students will need to understand what is Real GDP?, how is it measured?,
what does that mean? Is that the only way to measure growth? There were other ways to measure growth these involved the people and there well being (which is an interesting case). We then discussed the models with the majority of our discussion focusing on the PPC and remembering that the assumptions with this model is not it involves two goods, but all technology and human resources remain the same. Students will be required to discuss the curve and explain why countries could be inside the curve or outside the curve and what would cause this. This was our last lesson with Anne so she can go back to writing a book and enjoying marking.
I will be keeping people updated about practicum through this Blog.
The focus off this lesson was on unit plans that we had created in our groups, each group was given an opportunity to present there plan and was given feedback on the quality and ideas that they had put across. I enjoyed listening to each different group and seeing the different styles and approaches evident in the unit plans, it also gave me further ideas for when I am teaching this subject. It was also interesting to note the group dynamics and again gave me a small insight into how each student operates within a group and how they contribute.
Unfortunately not every group got there full allocation of time and Kelly had to cut the last two groups short, we were given more paper (seems to be a never ending supply) and ushered on our way. It was good to here that the quality of our group work is some of the best Kelly has seen, gave us all a shot in the arm as we head into practicum.
Thursday we moved onto growth and what is required to teach this unit to year 12 students. Anne gave us an article which we were required to come up with ten uses for in an economic classroom the article was on the Russian wheat crises and the subsequent ‘Grain Reaction’, that was about as far as my group got with the article (sorry Anne) anyway we did come up with some activities that I could be used for ideas such as (summarising, removal of headline students to decide on the headline for the article, role play/debate, flow on effects students to decide who it impacts, 3 level guide and others) this just showed the many uses for article that isn’t just read and answer questions.
We now move onto growth discussing what important info the students need to understand, the students will need to understand what is Real GDP?, how is it measured?,
what does that mean? Is that the only way to measure growth? There were other ways to measure growth these involved the people and there well being (which is an interesting case). We then discussed the models with the majority of our discussion focusing on the PPC and remembering that the assumptions with this model is not it involves two goods, but all technology and human resources remain the same. Students will be required to discuss the curve and explain why countries could be inside the curve or outside the curve and what would cause this. This was our last lesson with Anne so she can go back to writing a book and enjoying marking.I will be keeping people updated about practicum through this Blog.
see the wheat crises above.
Great video Andrew - impact on countries (positive NZ, others such as Middle East, India not so good), relation climate change, rise in middle class consumers, increase in general level of prices. It's got everything in it!
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