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  • Essay / Reflecting on my Inquiry Project in Class

    I chose my inquiry project because my mentor thought it would be both interesting and show relevant data. My mentor uses the method of lectures then videos to enrich the learners, so this data would also facilitate his teaching. I can definitely see myself using this same strategy, as I see the value in teaching a lecture and then watching a video, as this will then enrich the learners' understanding of the material. I implemented my inquiry project using two class periods to complete this experiment. On the first day, after a presentation on the material, I gave the learners a quiz and analyzed their results. On the second day, I used a video and allowed learners to analyze it. Directly after the video, I offered the learners a quiz on this content of the video. Both of these quizzes were graded NPT. These quizzes only had four questions each and the questions asked of each of the student's parents, I gave them a brief overview of where we were in the class and how their son or daughter was doing. girl. For some students, they were failing, so I was told to say what I had done for those students and what I could continue to do. For the rest of the students, I wasn't required to write anything, but I did it anyway because I wanted to make a personal connection with the students. An example of feedback I gave to parents was: “Your daughter is an ambitious learner who has strong critical thinking skills.” I tried to use their names in each comment and then tried to make a positive comment about their performance in a project or other assessment. I did this because I wanted to make a personal connection with the students, as I thought if I did so it would influence the learning environment by showing how much I truly care about each of the students' success in the