11.2 Lab Report Reflection
I just graded the lab reports and I was shocked by how many people didn’t get it. More so, I was shocked by the number of people who just didn’t do what I had told them to. Last week, I devoted a whole day to writing lab reports: I had a PowerPoint presentation which I used to show them what I expected in each section, and everything that was in the PowerPoint was on the rubric. Yet, it was like that class had never happened—students did things in manners that I told them not to. For example, in-text citations. I went over specifically what they are supposed to look like, and I even showed them what they look like in the text, and I directed them to websites that they could use. Instead, I get everything but in-text citations—I got full citations inserted into the text, I got people writing down the title of the article in the text, and I had people who just ignored it altogether.
The part that really brought this point home—that my presentation hadn’t worked was that I talked to two students after school one day, and I was telling them how I thought my lecture was ineffective, and they agreed with me. They agreed to zoning out and not really paying attention.
I need to find another way to relay this information to them. in the future, I think that instead, I would have them brainstorm in groups as to what they would include in each section, and they I would have them report out as a class. Also, when I was teaching them about claim, evidence, and reasoning as a strategy to write conclusions, I would have them do some problems on their worksheets.
The part that really brought this point home—that my presentation hadn’t worked was that I talked to two students after school one day, and I was telling them how I thought my lecture was ineffective, and they agreed with me. They agreed to zoning out and not really paying attention.
I need to find another way to relay this information to them. in the future, I think that instead, I would have them brainstorm in groups as to what they would include in each section, and they I would have them report out as a class. Also, when I was teaching them about claim, evidence, and reasoning as a strategy to write conclusions, I would have them do some problems on their worksheets.