Class tonight really helped solidify this idea of front loading. I know that it has been mentioned many times in multiple of my classes and I had always told myself that when I write my lessons I need to consider how important it is foundation of instruction. Between using the rate your knowledge organizer and the tea party activity, taking part in multiple ways that helped to build my knowledge as a student on the topic of Harriet Tubman. From a teaching perspective, I saw how effective this could be in a classroom with students who bring to the table a variety of knowledge on different issues.
One huge take away that I saw from tonight through the video, and then modeled at the end of class was the revisiting of the Hook/attention grabber that was used at the beginning of class. I know from the small amount of lessons that I have written that I often do not think of reusing something that I started a lesson with simply because I had not thought of it. As I begin to write a lesson for this class and in the future this is certainly something that I want to consider using. Personally, it was a great way for me to measure how much I was able to learn form the lesson. As a teacher, it is a great way to encourage students that they really are learning even when they feel that they aren’t!