Team+2

Team 2
Member Names: Hang Li Jin Yuan Li

Wednesday
Design Studio: Reflect on your content and pedagogy With your Partner reflect on the following questions: What content areas do you teach? English. What content strengths do you have? Bilingual. What content do you find difficult to teach? Reading. What do you consider your role to be as a teacher? Director. What instructional methods do you use as a teacher? lead-in pattern. What are some of the persistent problems you encounter in your instruction? Lack of enthusiasm. With your partner, identify possible areas of overlap. Teaching method.

Teaching is tricky.
 * Reflection Notes:**

Thursday
Guiding Questions I. What is the compelling question you would like your students to answer? Do you have any sub-questions to engage students? questions that are creative. yes, such as: giving an example to illustrate your answer to that question

II. How are new literacies featured in your compelling question? like videos can help students to understand a question visually.

III. How will you organize or group your students for the PBI? according to their strength and characteristics.

IV. What prior knowledge do your students need to have to complete this PBI lesson? What lesson(s) would come before the PBI? the knowledge of understanding their own strenghs ad=nd weakness, as well as the ability to analysis, synthesis questions. lessons of training students to be curious and eager to find anwers to questions they are interested in.

V. How will you scaffold and support your students' gathering and analyzing of information? How will you monitor this process? by provising materials and helping them using media aids. by evaluation of the students work such as program project or presentation.

VI. How will you scaffold and support your students' creative synthesis of information in their PBI product? How will you monitor this process? by provising materials and helping them using media aids. by evaluation of the students work such as program project or presentation.

VII. What intellectual elements in students' PBI product will be evaluated. What forms of assessments will you use (e.g. rubrics, checklist, etc). creativity, delicacy, and innovation. we will correct students papers, mark their project process and so on.

VIII. What technology tools will students use in creation and sharing of their PBI product? cell phones, internet.


 * Reflection Notes:**

curiosity is the key to seeking answers to a question

PBI Compelling Question:
how many common facial expressions do people have and what are they?

Content:
1. use visual aids to explain vocabularies. 2. identify facial expressions from the internet pictures. 3. tell short stories and ask students to act out what facial expression people will have after hearing those stories? 4. students search the internet to do oral presentations like jokes or sad stories that make other students react with correct emothinal facial expressions such as "smiling,upset, or confused". 5. students do a group work to make up a five-picture-story with five facial expressions, and decide which group has the best story plot.

Learning Outcomes for this PBI:
students will be able to describe facial expressions in English (describing feelings) as well as to act out different facial expressions according to teacher's instructions (giving orders).

Method:
1. using pictures downloaded from the internet and photoes of myself. 2. helping students to brainstorm more vocabulary for describing facial expressions. 3. searching the internet for emothinal stories to tell in class. 4. recording students facial expressions and ask students to identify them.

Assessment:
1. oral presentation check list (rubric scoring) 2. students took photoes of all facial expressions given by the teacher and bring them to the class, and students will evaluate each other's work.

Technology Tools Used:
internet searching engine ( baidu,google...), digital device (camera,DV),media type="custom" key="7446811"