Strategy Lesson (Multicolumn Notes) Reflection

Overall, I think that my Strategy Lesson presentation went really well! I think my PowerPoint was informative, yet not super long and boring. I know what it’s like to have to sit and watch a super boring PowerPoint, so I tried to throw in a few pop culture references and gifs here and there to keep everyone's attention.

Even Kylo Ren liked my presentation!

The most challenging part about my Strategy Lesson was trying to explain the many different variations of the strategy. The text defines multicolumn notes as being a 2-column system (one for summarizing, then one for reflecting), yet it also said that most teachers use 3 columns. On top of that, teachers have so many different ways to label and organize their multicolumn notes. But I think I ended up covering many of the variations pretty well, and made sure to mention ideas for each content area.

Me, when I realized I forgot to do the last column lol

Also, I think I demonstrated the multicolumn notes strategy pretty well. After spending hours trying to find a grade-level appropriate text for the strategy, I settled on a passage about the Water Cycle. I felt really confident that the multicolumn notes would be an effective during-reading strategy for this text, and it seemed to work out really well in class. If there’s anything I could improve on from my demonstration/modeling, I would have asked my classmates to show their notes from the reading under the document camera (like I did) so that we could have seen how everyone fills them out differently. Also, I made the mistake of skipping the “Reflections/Questions” Column during my modeling, so I had to improvise and do the questions and reflections at the end of the presentation instead. Next time, I would do them as I read like I was supposed to!



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Emily