Week 4 Powerpoints

The main thing that I learned about with this lesson is the flexibility that a power point gives you in your lesson. As I posted in my discussion on ilearn, PowerPoint give you the opportunity to bring life to a lesson that could be very boring to a student who has to look at a page that is white with black ink and a few pictures. Although I am not a teacher right now, I save all the PowerPoint that are related to my content area knowing that they will provide me with some form of a resource no matter how big or small.

I did my presentation on the Bill of Rights. My certification is in grades 5-9 (Middle School Social Studies) and Civics is the class that I aspire to teach. I enjoy teaching the law and how it was formed and still used today. Many citizens that are in the United States today are not aware of their rights and many citizens have no idea just how important their role in our government is. Many are still left ignorant of their rights and therefore become a member of society that cannot be a contributor to their fullest potential. I am very passionate about this because it is our rights that cannot be taken for granted. The thing that I am most proud of in my presentation is the background and also some random questions that I would ask students at the end of each slide.

 I enjoy teaching the government to where students can understand it and also students know. You never want to keep going forward until students understand exactly what you are teaching. You may not reach every single student, but you have a chance to reach students in a way that can give them a better chance to understand exactly what is being taught.If I had to do it differently, I wish the slide that the YouTube video is on would come up like a screen instead of just the link. I have worked on that all day and still cannot get the full screen to come up.

Any student enjoys the PowerPoint a whole lot more just for the simple fact that the background is not white with black print, like many books they read that cannot keep their attention. Also anytime PowerPoint is added an aide to a class discussion, it allows any teacher discussion to highlight the points that are important and necessary.