Let’s face it; it’s hard to be a teacher today. Not that imparting knowledge to the future leaders of the world was every easy, but today teacher’s work with the students of a different society – students who face more complex and mature issues than ever before. Add to that the pressure of meeting state [...]
Posts Tagged ‘EDU 6363’
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 9
Posted in P1: Professional responsibilities, P2: Professional growth, tagged EDU 6363, education reform, Gates Foundation on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 8
Posted in S1: Content driven, T1: Standards-based assessment, T3: Instructional strategies, Uncategorized, tagged cause and effect, EDU 6363, thinking maps on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When social studies classroom are portrayed in TV shows and movies, the picture usually portrays students on the brink of sleep, chalkboards full of names and dates to memorize, and a monotone teacher dragging on and on. And while there is so much wrong with this scenario, the worst thing in my mind is the [...]
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 6
Posted in P1: Professional responsibilities, tagged EDU 6363, teachers of literacy on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Make learning relevant. Vary your teaching styles. Create a compelling, student-centered curriculum. These are some of critical pieces to becoming a successful teacher that have been stressed throughout my teacher training. While these are all incredibly important, the principle I take most seriously is that all teachers are teachers of reading and literacy. Personally, I [...]
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 Weekly Reflection 4
Posted in S2: Standard alignment, tagged curriculum mapping, EDU 6363 on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ask any member of my MAT cohort (or any future teacher for that matter) what they’re anxious about in their future career and they’ll mention something about not knowing what to teach. Our program has done a great job of teaching us techniques for how to teach, but since there are so many extraneous variables [...]
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.” [...]
EDU 6363: Week 1 Reflection
Posted in L1: Learner centered, T2: Intentionally planned, tagged BBMS, EDU 6363, integrated curriculum on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My middle school years were spent inside the walls of Brown Barge Middle School. Brown Barge was different than a typical middle school. Instead of having classes in core subjects and electives for either one or two semesters, BBMS students learned via 12-week theme-based units called streams. I believe the authors of Meeting Standards through [...]
