What went well in your teaching? Based on what you learned as an instructor, what changes would you make next time?
I made sure that I went slowly and gave opportunity for any questions that “students” had. I feel like I was very clear in my explanations. She knew how to follow my directions, and printed without any problems. I made sure that I was not talking down to her.
After seeing her mini lesson, I got some great new ideas that would improve my own lesson. I want to include pictures so students that learn the same way I do will have that extra help. I would also like to use more detail in my steps. I will also need to include a few more steps in order to make it clearer.
I think printing is a valuable skill for students to have. I would hope that they would know how to do this before coming into the 5th grade. Maybe this could be a refresher or a new skill for ELLs.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
LifeSavers
Based on your learning experience in the LifeSaver lesson, describe the attributes of inquiry learning.
Students may think what is going to happen, but without inquiry learning, they can only assume. I think that students truly learn when they get their hands on something physical or can relate it to something in their own lives. During our LifeSaver inquiry learning assignment, we made predictions about what we thought would happen with the LifeSavers. We then performed our tests and recorded our results. We included visuals in the form of a chart and a PowerPoint to help further our understanding of our experiment.
I believe all of the steps made it a more powerful lesson. I can more easily remember the assignment because it was reiterated in so many ways. Plus all of the visual aids were what really stuck in my mind. This is one of the reasons I really enjoy science. You get to hypothesize, then find out what the real results are.
Students may think what is going to happen, but without inquiry learning, they can only assume. I think that students truly learn when they get their hands on something physical or can relate it to something in their own lives. During our LifeSaver inquiry learning assignment, we made predictions about what we thought would happen with the LifeSavers. We then performed our tests and recorded our results. We included visuals in the form of a chart and a PowerPoint to help further our understanding of our experiment.
I believe all of the steps made it a more powerful lesson. I can more easily remember the assignment because it was reiterated in so many ways. Plus all of the visual aids were what really stuck in my mind. This is one of the reasons I really enjoy science. You get to hypothesize, then find out what the real results are.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Scaffolding Activities
From the learner perspective, how did the lesson activities support your achievement of the task?
Having the examples of the different steps that we were going to complete were very helpful. It gave me a visual of each step I needed in order to complete the "big picture". I think the most helpful was the PowerPoint scaffolding. It gave our group an idea of what was needed to complete each slide. At first I wasn't so sure about how the assignment was supposed to be done. The examples and the whole class reviewing was great. I think that students would benefit from this. Maybe the second time wouldn't have to be covered as the group, they could just follow the prompts. I think that was probably the purpose of doing the scaffolding.
How did technology help you modify the files to meet your needs as a learner?
This was a good way for me to build up my scaffolding so in the future I can complete the tasks completely on my own. I am a visual person, so seeing the correct way to do things makes the picture clear for me on how mine should look. The chart on how to decide our presentation was helpful because all of us had so many different ideas. it helped us to not be so biased when we could see the big picture.
Having the examples of the different steps that we were going to complete were very helpful. It gave me a visual of each step I needed in order to complete the "big picture". I think the most helpful was the PowerPoint scaffolding. It gave our group an idea of what was needed to complete each slide. At first I wasn't so sure about how the assignment was supposed to be done. The examples and the whole class reviewing was great. I think that students would benefit from this. Maybe the second time wouldn't have to be covered as the group, they could just follow the prompts. I think that was probably the purpose of doing the scaffolding.
How did technology help you modify the files to meet your needs as a learner?
This was a good way for me to build up my scaffolding so in the future I can complete the tasks completely on my own. I am a visual person, so seeing the correct way to do things makes the picture clear for me on how mine should look. The chart on how to decide our presentation was helpful because all of us had so many different ideas. it helped us to not be so biased when we could see the big picture.
Friday, February 5, 2010
discovery learning
How do you envision discovery learning as part of your teaching and curriculum?
I think it is important for kids to have direction on some assignments, but every once in a while they need to have a discovery experience. Kids need to know how to find answers on their own. They need to learn how to be able to do research or explore something they are interested in when the class just doesn't go into deep enough for them.
Students can discover more than just answers about an assignment. They can discover how well they work with others, what skills they can perform well, and new topics they enjoy that they would like to learn more about.
As a person, I am always finding new things to learn about. As a teacher, I will encourage my students to have that same passion for learning. Learning is a never ending experience. I hope everyone can discover this.
I think it is important for kids to have direction on some assignments, but every once in a while they need to have a discovery experience. Kids need to know how to find answers on their own. They need to learn how to be able to do research or explore something they are interested in when the class just doesn't go into deep enough for them.
Students can discover more than just answers about an assignment. They can discover how well they work with others, what skills they can perform well, and new topics they enjoy that they would like to learn more about.
As a person, I am always finding new things to learn about. As a teacher, I will encourage my students to have that same passion for learning. Learning is a never ending experience. I hope everyone can discover this.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Belief Statement
What are your beliefs about teaching and learning with technology? Describe how technology has supported learning in classrooms you have observed.
I feel that teaching with technology can greatly help my students. I didn’t have computers to work on until high school and even then it was one class and we didn’t do a whole lot. My typing skills are lacking as well, but I am improving. I am amazed at how fast kids can pick things up when it comes to computers. I think it is great for kids to be able to look up information on the internet and play interactive learning games too.
The downside to computers in the classrooms is that kids might be able to find things on the internet that they shouldn’t see. It is also making it so that students writing and spelling is suffering because they don’t need to use those skills anymore with the computer.
I have not seen a whole lot of computers used in the classroom by the students, but I see the teachers using quite a bit. I see them especially the document cameras and the microphones. I think sending emails to the parents to keep them updated on their students progress is a great idea.
I feel that teaching with technology can greatly help my students. I didn’t have computers to work on until high school and even then it was one class and we didn’t do a whole lot. My typing skills are lacking as well, but I am improving. I am amazed at how fast kids can pick things up when it comes to computers. I think it is great for kids to be able to look up information on the internet and play interactive learning games too.
The downside to computers in the classrooms is that kids might be able to find things on the internet that they shouldn’t see. It is also making it so that students writing and spelling is suffering because they don’t need to use those skills anymore with the computer.
I have not seen a whole lot of computers used in the classroom by the students, but I see the teachers using quite a bit. I see them especially the document cameras and the microphones. I think sending emails to the parents to keep them updated on their students progress is a great idea.
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