Reflection

It was quite difficult than I expected it to be.

My students were little kids (1st-4th grade), but we tried to make something that was too advanced for our level.

On the 1st day, I asked my students to explore the Scratch website and pick what they would like to make. Of course, the projects on that page are the most advanced ones, involving many math and physics concepts that my students weren't familiar with. I should've gone with more of the easier ones before showing that page.

On the 4th day, I asked my students to come up with their own project idea. I thought this would be a great way to let my students expand their creativity, but there was one problem: they all wanted to make something too advanced for our level. Most of my students had a hard time implementing it because they weren't familiar with the math & physics concepts that were necessary to know to make it. I also had a hard time, because I had to teach them... quite a lot. We all suffered, but I couldn't revert the plan because I already promised my students that we'll bring all of their ideas to come true 😎😬.

I should've acknowledged that my students needed help with the fundamental concepts before starting to implement advanced ones.

In the future, I'll use this course plan to teach higher grades (4th-6th grade I guess). For lower grades, I'm just going to make stuff together somewhere like our school library tutoring club.

- Written on Jun. 18, 2023