As opposed to last week, I actually agree with what the Wong’s had to say in their chapter about classroom management. I credit myself with being a highly organized and fairly systematic person, so what the Wong’s said really resonated with me. I find personal stability in being consistent and having routine, so I easily [...]
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EDU 6139 Reflection 6
Posted in L1: Learner centered, T2: Intentionally planned, tagged classroom management, consistency, fairness, procedures on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 9
Posted in L1: Learner centered, P1: Professional responsibilities, S2: Standard alignment, T1: Standards-based assessment, T2: Intentionally planned, Uncategorized, tagged expectations, motivation, MSP, poetry on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
9 weeks down, 6 official (7.2 unofficial) weeks to go! Last week was a continuation of the week before in terms of student engagement levels. At some points I feel myself starting to think, “Well, I’m not going to care if they don’t care,” which is not what I want to be thinking or feeling. [...]
EDU 6139 Reflection 5
Posted in L1: Learner centered, P1: Professional responsibilities, T2: Intentionally planned, Uncategorized, tagged educational research on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s Wong and Wong reading discussed how the effective teacher understands and uses the research process to improve student achievement and student learning. While I agree with what they are saying, I couldn’t help but think about my internship situation and conclude that the Wong’s have a sort of black and white approach to [...]
Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 8
Posted in L1: Learner centered, S1: Content driven, T2: Intentionally planned, T3: Instructional strategies, tagged motivation on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spring sprung early this year. I was more than ready for the perks that come with more daylight and warmer weather, but I was not prepared for the effect it would have on my students. Since coming back from Spring Break at the beginning of April both Robin and I (and let’s face it, most [...]
EDU 6139 Reflection 4
Posted in L1: Learner centered, P1: Professional responsibilities, P2: Professional growth, tagged care, EDU 6139, positive attitude on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wong and Wong discuss how smiling, saying please and thank you, and calling students by name are helpful in letting students know you care about them and in helping form positive attitudes. I wholeheartedly agree with this and am working on following their advice, but am finding it extremely difficult to do with certain students. [...]
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 7
Posted in L1: Learner centered, S1: Content driven, tagged EDU 6363, motivation on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You can’t force students to learn things they don’t want to learn. You can try every trick and strategy up your sleeve, but if they aren’t intrinsically motivated, it’s almost a lost cause. So the question is how do we help motivate students to learn? This is a complicated question with an even more complicated [...]
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 5
Posted in L1: Learner centered, tagged authentic experiences, EDU 6363 on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s class was a short one due to our internship meeting, so the only thing we had time for was a 15-minute mini lesson taught by my classmate Jeff. It was a wonderful, well-prepared lesson focusing on poetry and the civil war. He started with a class brainstorming session. We were to throw out [...]
EDU 6363 Week 3 Reflection
Posted in L1: Learner centered, S3: Content area integration, tagged backward design, EDU 6363, know/do/be on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In our integrated unit on Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors this week, Columbus is talking about his interactions with the Caribbean people and their belongings and says, “In fact, they took all and gave all, such as they had, with good will but it seemed to me that they were a people deficient in everything.” [...]
Integrating Reading & Writing in Social Studies
Posted in L1: Learner centered, S1: Content driven on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This lesson plan was designed to help struggling readers and writers in a middle school social studies class. The lesson revolves around the idea of Manifest Destiny and westward expansion. Specific strategies were implemented to make sure that students of all reading and writing abilities would be successful. EDRD 6530 Reading/Writing Lesson Plan Written December [...]
Students as Learners
Posted in L1: Learner centered on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The artifacts listed below attest to my ability to view students as learners and thus create a learner-centered classroom. Through exploring my own experiences with education I was able to put myself in the shoes of a middle schooler once more and discover the advantages of being part of a learner-centered school. EDU 6132 Personal [...]
