Engage+and+Reframe

Engage and Reframe Lesson: Photo Lesson

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Reflection 3

After watching the clip, Engaged and Reframe. This lesson was about children and their analyzing skills of photography. The teacher had the kids analyze and interpret what the photo illustrated weather it was the tone or emotion or the overall depicted image with numerous photos. By doing so and letting the kids explain to her what they see without her influence would understand how children’s thoughts are processed though their own inner thoughts without interrupting there thought processes with there own.

The first thing I noticed right off the back she put many photos up to widen the children’s view and to also not have the kids thinking about what there analyzing until she told them which on so there was no pre-thoughts. Secondly I like the way that this presentations is presented she gathers the children close and together so that they can converse between themselves and she put the close enough to monitor there thinking and behavior with the project. The children seemed to have understood that in a way there teacher wasn’t going to interrupt so they went with the first kids thought. Instead of putting their own clear thoughts about the photo the reproduced that same idea and ran with it using their own thoughts, rather than putting their own opinion out there. The teacher also use “fishing” as a catalyst in this project to keep the kids from floating and to have them put their thoughts out in the open to keep the kids engaged and stimulated.

The kids seemed to have reacted the right way towards the project and I feel like a main part of that was the interaction the teacher gave see in turn let the kids dictate everything and didn’t correct anything which allowed the kids for more open of a discussion of he photo. I feel like that was the most important part of the whole project if she would of told the kids “no” or “yes” they would have been more subjective to the project and would of looked for the teacher approval. This kind of reminds me of the classroom activity we took part in where you changed the structure of our classroom for the day. Instead of close and together your had us far apart and that created kind of a buzz between us because we’re use to our normal classroom structure. In a way it made us react and analyze what was going on. This was the opposite however she brought the children together and they reacted just as we did. Which I feel like engages children to become open from what there use to and causes them to react differently, it gives them a sense of freedom in a way the teacher let them do the legwork and the reacted by trying to understand the emotions and tone of the photo though one another rather than through there peer.