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Edgar Felipe Mora-Atl Skills - Reflection On Content

This document provides guidance on self-reflection to improve understanding of new concepts. It advises identifying what is already understood as well as gaps in understanding. Filling gaps requires asking targeted questions to unlock understanding. An example reflects on areas of French travel topics that were understood and identifies specific vocabulary as not yet understood. The reflection process helps analyze current knowledge, ask focused questions to address gaps, find answers to deepen understanding, and check new understanding with others.

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Edgar Felipe Mora-Atl Skills - Reflection On Content

This document provides guidance on self-reflection to improve understanding of new concepts. It advises identifying what is already understood as well as gaps in understanding. Filling gaps requires asking targeted questions to unlock understanding. An example reflects on areas of French travel topics that were understood and identifies specific vocabulary as not yet understood. The reflection process helps analyze current knowledge, ask focused questions to address gaps, find answers to deepen understanding, and check new understanding with others.

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Edgar Felipe Mora-ATL SKILLS - REFLECTION ON CONTENT

Consider content – a. What did I learn about today?

b. What don’t I yet understand?

c. What questions do I have now?

Reflection is most useful when it leads to new understandings. This is only possible if you become
very clear about what you do understand and, more importantly, about what you don’t yet
understand. This is the critical part. Have you ever been struggling to understand a whole new
topic and had one of those moments where one little part of the topic becomes clear to you and
suddenly you make sense of the whole topic? What has happened, of course, is that you have
found the key to your own understanding, and that has unlocked an entire topic. The keys to
understanding are what you are always seeking, and you need to be aware that they will be
different for different people.

If you want to learn to do this in a systematic way with anything that you are finding difficult, then
the most important skills to learn are:

1. The skill of analyzing your own, present understandings - by becoming clear about the
things that you do understand, but, even more important, working out what the pieces are
that you don’t yet understand. And then …
2. The skill of asking the right question, the answer to which will fill in the gap you have
identified in your own understanding.

EXERCISE 1 – What I don’t understand yet

a) Looking back over a certain piece of work you have just completed – one lesson, one topic,
one concept - fill in the first line first, then answer any of the following questions that are
relevant to you:

1. The parts I understood well were

Talking about the subject French, I have understood the main ideas of the third trimester, we are
talking about traveling, for example we have been talking about the airport, the campaigns…

 But the words I still don’t really understand yet are, in some cases in the activities of listen
going I got confuse.

The ideas I don’t understand yet are more some word than the ideas.

What do I have to do I need to make a better practice at listening and be more carful
with some words that are used in the concept of traveling.

What I need to know is the main idea what we are working and then having a better
listening skill.
The thing I just don’t get is some word at the listening activities that people uses when
they travel.

2. See if you can write a specific question which, if you got a clear answer to it, would
clear up your lack of understanding in this area.

In order to understand this I need to practice more on my listening skills, and some
website tools that the teacher gave me.

3. Find the resources or the explanation you need to answer your question. See if you
can get an answer that makes sense to you from:
 A teacher
 A friend
 An older student
 An adult – someone who knows something about the subject
 The textbook
 The internet

4. Focus on the way you are processing the information, the techniques you are using
to read, make useful notes, summarize key points, remember important concepts
and facts. Try different ways of learning until you find a way that helps you to
understand.

5. Write out an explanation, in your own words, of the part that you previously didn’t
understand.
I am trying to have all my concentration in French classes, using a lot the take of notes and
also asking the teacher questions of the meaning of some words.

6. Check your new understanding with your teacher or another student.

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