During my last two weeks at the Kobler elementary, I've had a great time observing and helping Ms. Kapileo's class. I got to know the students even more & the teacher. Ms. Kapileo teaches her class using a lot of technology. She teaches her class in a very fun way & the students learn something new everyday during their dicussions on group reading, activities or center time. By teaching the students, i learned a lot about kids. I learned how to approach a kid by the things to say or do, techniques that would help interest them in the subject they are learning.
For my first read aloud, me and carihna decided to read two books together; for the students who were listening and were able to answer the questions from the book, got awarded with a sticker. I noticed that the students try really hard in doing a good job to get a sticker; Stickers are a good way to motivate students in paying attention or getting their work done.
My second read aloud, me and carihna did the same thing and read books together. We always read 1 book that was fun to read and 1 to learn about something new, such as the book "Baby Farm Animals". The book teached them the names of animals called when they are babies and when they are adults; So they learned the difference between adult animals and baby animals.
The read alouds were the best part during my last 2 weeks; I had fun reading it.
Overall, my experience was so much fun for the last two weeks; I got more closer to the students. Ms. Kapileo is doing such a great job teaching the students, they are very advanced in what they are learning..
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Cues, Organizers, cooperative learning & nonlinguistic
Cues & Organizers are important because it helps focus on what is important. organizers are used to help the student learn more. by using what they already learn to learning the new things. cues help the student get the idea of what they should learn. the activity we did for cues & organizers was learning how to separate and determine the odd & even numbers. It was a helpful worksheet, it teaches you the ways you can tell what was odd and what was even.
Cooperative learning is important becauses it teaches everyone in the class that they all need to put in effort & not just one person. It helps students to learn from eachother and interact instead of learning on their own. Learning from their fellow classmates can increase their knowledge in any subject. The activity we did for cooperative was a autobiography poem. i wrote a poem about myself and we shared it with the class. it was a fun activity.
For nonliguistic, the activity we did was fun. We got to draw. We drew a picture of the word they gave us using our imagination. Nonliguisitic helps you visualize pictures or symbols in you head instead of just writing words about something. For me, this activity was most fun.
Cooperative learning is important becauses it teaches everyone in the class that they all need to put in effort & not just one person. It helps students to learn from eachother and interact instead of learning on their own. Learning from their fellow classmates can increase their knowledge in any subject. The activity we did for cooperative was a autobiography poem. i wrote a poem about myself and we shared it with the class. it was a fun activity.
For nonliguistic, the activity we did was fun. We got to draw. We drew a picture of the word they gave us using our imagination. Nonliguisitic helps you visualize pictures or symbols in you head instead of just writing words about something. For me, this activity was most fun.
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
CITW Startegies 1
Similarities & Differences consists of four strategies which are: comparing, classifying, creating metaphors, and creating analogies. These strategies are considered the core of all learning. Learning similarities can help you learn in a deep level which allows you to understand more. This chapter is important because it teaches you how to identify the things that have in common by different ways, not just by the basic things. It teaches you how to organize things by their similarities or differences. It shows you the relationship between everything else. Using these four strategies can help organize things in a simple way that can help you learn even more because it is separated by what they have in common with. Many of my elementary teachers used Similarities & Differences, it helped me become organize in my writing, for example when i write notes to study for a test, i list the things that have in common and what dont. so it gives a better understanding of what im reading.
In setting objectives, it is important to have objectives because it leads you to the right path to what you should learn, what is the important part to learn in the lesson. i think the activity i did on letting my classmates watch a video then write a objective for it was a pretty good example. i think if i did the activity i would understand why objectives are important and how to write one. Feedback is also important it provides background to what you learn, like a review, for my activity i just reviewed the objectives to point out what were good objectives and what werent and why. it helped my classmates understand more on how to write objectives.
Effort & recognition is also important because when giving recognition, it gives the student more confidence, it makes them proud and happy. It lets them feel like they did a great job. When giving recognition, it can help the student give more effort because they want to hear a praise from their teacher.
In setting objectives, it is important to have objectives because it leads you to the right path to what you should learn, what is the important part to learn in the lesson. i think the activity i did on letting my classmates watch a video then write a objective for it was a pretty good example. i think if i did the activity i would understand why objectives are important and how to write one. Feedback is also important it provides background to what you learn, like a review, for my activity i just reviewed the objectives to point out what were good objectives and what werent and why. it helped my classmates understand more on how to write objectives.
Effort & recognition is also important because when giving recognition, it gives the student more confidence, it makes them proud and happy. It lets them feel like they did a great job. When giving recognition, it can help the student give more effort because they want to hear a praise from their teacher.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
10 ways using twitter for eduaction
1. Learn from Others - Its helpful because others can help you and its easier in a way when someone teaches you.
2. Pass out information about events- this helps everyone get informed in all educational purposes.
3. share lesson plans- this can help you find people to come together and share ideas to make a even bigger and greater lesson plan.
4. Ask questions - the best way to communicate is also by asking questions. it gets people to start thinking & sharing.. more conversations.
5. Share what you are reading- its always good to share what you read, you never know people would be interested in it or could help them because many people nowadays have twitter.
6. Use twitter for class announcements- its a good way to communicate and fast. it can help everyone on task because twitter can also be for education and not just enjoyment.
7. Ask for help- its good to ask for help because you never know how many people on twitter can help you. you can have lots of help from different people around the world.
8. career resources- twitter is also a great way to see career resources. it can help you find a job when people are updating about it on twitter.
9. Share your publications- sharing your work on twitter can get some people noticed by your writing or whatever you do, it can lead you to something great like a job.
10. Use twitter for research- twitter can help you with research because so many people have twitter and they write about anything.
the three people i followed on twitter for education were:
EdWeek Teacher
The MY HERO project
Teachers.net
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Observing Bloom's Taxonomy
Teacher: Ms. Sumor
Grade level: 2nd grade
When I first came in Ms. Sumor's class they were doing DI Reading; she had 3rd graders in her class. Some of them were very loud & some were very quiet. They were reading a booklet and when they were done, Ms. Sumor tests them one by one on the story they were reading to check if they understood what they read. If they pass the 2nd grade level reading then they can continue to the next reading level.
By 9:00, her 2nd grade class came in, they were very behaved and i was surprised because they all payed attention to her. Ms. Lee was absent to Ms. Sumor had to watch extra students from Ms. Lee's class. They had hard time behaving but when they saw Ms. Sumors class behaving & paying attention to Ms. Sumor while she was talking, all the students did the same.
They read a story from the booklet and the teacher asked questions.
After reading, they went over their spelling words; they had about 20 spelling words. The teacher assigns students to have turns holding up the ruler to lead the class in spelling the word on the board. When they were done reviewing the words, the teacher gave them a assignment by choosing 5 words from the 20 and writing a sentence using the word.
I was very impressed by some of the sentences the students made, they were very advanced. It showed that Ms. Sumor was doing a great job teaching her class because they were all quiet, behaved and listening. It was a great experience observing a 2nd grade class. i never knew children at that age could be so well behaved.
Grade level: 2nd grade
When I first came in Ms. Sumor's class they were doing DI Reading; she had 3rd graders in her class. Some of them were very loud & some were very quiet. They were reading a booklet and when they were done, Ms. Sumor tests them one by one on the story they were reading to check if they understood what they read. If they pass the 2nd grade level reading then they can continue to the next reading level.
By 9:00, her 2nd grade class came in, they were very behaved and i was surprised because they all payed attention to her. Ms. Lee was absent to Ms. Sumor had to watch extra students from Ms. Lee's class. They had hard time behaving but when they saw Ms. Sumors class behaving & paying attention to Ms. Sumor while she was talking, all the students did the same.
They read a story from the booklet and the teacher asked questions.
After reading, they went over their spelling words; they had about 20 spelling words. The teacher assigns students to have turns holding up the ruler to lead the class in spelling the word on the board. When they were done reviewing the words, the teacher gave them a assignment by choosing 5 words from the 20 and writing a sentence using the word.
I was very impressed by some of the sentences the students made, they were very advanced. It showed that Ms. Sumor was doing a great job teaching her class because they were all quiet, behaved and listening. It was a great experience observing a 2nd grade class. i never knew children at that age could be so well behaved.
Monday, 7 January 2013
The three types of learning
The article is mainly about Benjamin Bloom. He identified the three domains of educational activities : congitive, affective & psychomotor. It is about Bloom's taxonomy of learning domains.
In 1956 (Bloom), the congitive domain involves knowledge and the developement of intellectual skills, which include six major categories: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis & evaluation. In 1973 (Bloom with Krathwohl & Maisa) includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, which include five major categories: Recieving Phenomena, Responding to phenomena, valuing, organization, & internalizing values.
In 1972 (simpson), the psychomotor domain includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor- skill areas, which include seven major categories: perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaptaion, & origination.
In 1975 (Dave), includes: imitation, manipulation, precision, articulation, naturalization.
In 1972 (Harrow's): reflex movments, fundamental movements, perception, physical abilities, skilled movments, no discursive communication.
Lori Anderson revised Blooms work & made it much more understanding and accurate.
In 1956 (Bloom), the congitive domain involves knowledge and the developement of intellectual skills, which include six major categories: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis & evaluation. In 1973 (Bloom with Krathwohl & Maisa) includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, which include five major categories: Recieving Phenomena, Responding to phenomena, valuing, organization, & internalizing values.
In 1972 (simpson), the psychomotor domain includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor- skill areas, which include seven major categories: perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaptaion, & origination.
In 1975 (Dave), includes: imitation, manipulation, precision, articulation, naturalization.
In 1972 (Harrow's): reflex movments, fundamental movements, perception, physical abilities, skilled movments, no discursive communication.
Lori Anderson revised Blooms work & made it much more understanding and accurate.
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