Reflection: Critical Incident Protocol

1.WHAT?
  On last Saturday morning, with my daughter, we went to daughter's elementary school.  Even though that day was holiday, we went to participate special class to make environmental car and handkerchief with leaves. At first class, we made the car with cardboard but in the process of fabricating  I was busy to follow the teacher 's instruction.  and moreover I had no self- confidence to  fabricate car and teacher's speech speed was fast. so I was irritated  with my daughter.

2. WHY?
 While teacher instruct the process of fabricating, I felt that it was too fast. At the beginning of that class the teacher said " it was difficult for me to make it " after listening suddenly I felt nervous and I was irritated with my daughter. My daughter tried to fabricate the car, but that made me hindered  to follow his speech. so we couldn't enjoy that time.

3. MEANING?
 As teacher, I thought the teacher's attitude for his students. He was honest and kindly. but his speech speed was too fast and difficult. Except us other team didn't follow his sayings. other problem was his diffident attitude for making car.  That makes me irritated.

4. IMPLICATIONS?
 As  a middle school teacher, what  I felt is that teacher's attitude for students is very important. Teacher should consider the students' level. To be a good teacher we need to consider the speech speed, leadership for students, friendly attitude and other attitude for students.

 An Approach to Academic Writing

Academic writing is a product of many considerations: audience, purpose,organization, style, flow and presentation
1. Audience - we need to have and understaning of our audiences and prior knowledge
2. Purpose and Strategy - Audience, purpose and strategy are typically interconnected
3. Organization - Information is presented to reader in a structured format.
                          Even short piece of writing have  regular, predictable patterns of organization
4. Style- Academic writers need to be sure that their communications are written in the appropriate style. The style of a particular piece must not only be consistent, but must also be proper for the message being conveyed and for the audience.  One difficulty in using the appropriate style is knowing what is considered academic and what is not. Lectures are generally delivered in a relatively nonacademic style.

Briefly I wrote introductions of each list.. The most important is detailed contents. Practices make perfect. I need consistent efforts to  write well.