Example of a good teacher and why?
When I was in second grade I was in Mrs. Albas' class. She is the teacher I recall the most. I remember her because I felt so comfortable with her. She had this presence about her that made you feel like should would take away all of your fears. She spent what I felt was quality time with each student. She took time to get to know us and the way we learned. If we didn't understand she spent the time finding a way to help that easy for each one of us to understand. She cared about what the environment at home was like. Making sure we had help with our homework. I have met teachers who seemed as if they did not care weather their student passed that grade. She was not that way at all. I think a good teacher incorporates all styles of learning in order to better help their students. Even if that means having to come up with three different activities for one subject. A good teacher is concerned about his or her students. They do what ever they can to ensure their students success.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Blog One EDRG 3321
Chapter One
Literature is extremely valuable for children. It entices, motivates, and instructs. Literature opens doors to discovery and provides endless hours of adventures and enjoyment. On top of bringing joy to a child literature plays a stong role in helping a child understand and value their cultural heritage. Literature aids in developing emotional intelligence. It also promotes child development. Children learn in stages which are language development, cognitive development, personality development, and social development. Literature helps in the development of three. Personality development is the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are charcterisctic of an individual.
In my opinion a value is a belief or philosophy that and individual or a society believe to be of great importance. To me religious faith is of the highest importance. I feel this was because I feel that when you walk hand and hand with God you can handle anything that comes your way through him. I believe that it is important to know what he expects of us in order for us to be the kind of person worthy of his love. Do we make mistakes? Of course but we are offered forgiveness. I believe it is important that as a parent you instill into your children that same faith. I also feel that when you believe in something greater then yourself or this life you will in turn live a more meaningful life. You will be content or I should say happy with what you have been given. I also feel that if you have religious faith then values like morality, honesty, love, and family come along with that. I see it as to have morality you have to believe in something greater and for me that is God. For love you have to exhibit that same unselfish love that God showed us when he sacrificed his only son. I learned this from my family, my church, and myself. As a child my mother and father took us to church as often as they could. And I learned some but didn't retain much. When I was a senior in high school I got I guess what you could call an aching to know more, so I went to church by myself. Then when I met my husband I began to go more and more. I believe we have a strong relationship because of our faith. Can I teach this value? I do not think I can teach this value as much as share my beliefs. I can not tell them that they need to or should believe in what I believe. At the age that I want to teach the child should be learning this from their parents. I would not want to impose on what they are teaching them if they are of a different faith. If the school allowed we could study holidays like Christmas and Easter. Religious faith is something that a person comes into not something they are taught. So no you do not teach religious faith.
Literature is extremely valuable for children. It entices, motivates, and instructs. Literature opens doors to discovery and provides endless hours of adventures and enjoyment. On top of bringing joy to a child literature plays a stong role in helping a child understand and value their cultural heritage. Literature aids in developing emotional intelligence. It also promotes child development. Children learn in stages which are language development, cognitive development, personality development, and social development. Literature helps in the development of three. Personality development is the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are charcterisctic of an individual.
In my opinion a value is a belief or philosophy that and individual or a society believe to be of great importance. To me religious faith is of the highest importance. I feel this was because I feel that when you walk hand and hand with God you can handle anything that comes your way through him. I believe that it is important to know what he expects of us in order for us to be the kind of person worthy of his love. Do we make mistakes? Of course but we are offered forgiveness. I believe it is important that as a parent you instill into your children that same faith. I also feel that when you believe in something greater then yourself or this life you will in turn live a more meaningful life. You will be content or I should say happy with what you have been given. I also feel that if you have religious faith then values like morality, honesty, love, and family come along with that. I see it as to have morality you have to believe in something greater and for me that is God. For love you have to exhibit that same unselfish love that God showed us when he sacrificed his only son. I learned this from my family, my church, and myself. As a child my mother and father took us to church as often as they could. And I learned some but didn't retain much. When I was a senior in high school I got I guess what you could call an aching to know more, so I went to church by myself. Then when I met my husband I began to go more and more. I believe we have a strong relationship because of our faith. Can I teach this value? I do not think I can teach this value as much as share my beliefs. I can not tell them that they need to or should believe in what I believe. At the age that I want to teach the child should be learning this from their parents. I would not want to impose on what they are teaching them if they are of a different faith. If the school allowed we could study holidays like Christmas and Easter. Religious faith is something that a person comes into not something they are taught. So no you do not teach religious faith.
Blog One EDRG 3344
How do students learn?
According to Jean Piaget learning is the modification of students’ cognitive structures as they interact with and adapt to their environment. Piaget believed that children construct their own knowledge from their experiences. From this point of view it seems that children learn in a social environment. According to the text students gain their knowledge when they are actively involved allowing them to take from previous experiences and cultural backgrounds. Giving them many opportunities to model and discuss their learning. These ideas are based on Vygotsky, Bandura, Piage , and Bruner. The knowledge stored in the students’ brain is not a collection of isolated bits of information; it is instead organized and becomes integrated and interrelated as their knowledge grows. The organization is a cognitive structure and the knowledge is arranged in systems called schemata. Students learn when the existing schemata are enlarged because of assimilated information and when their schemata are restructured to account for new experiences being acted on and accommodated. Also according to the Information Processing Theory children use five general strategies to process information. These are: rehearsal in which they repeat information over and over, predicting where they anticipate what will happen, organizing where they group information, elaborating where they expand on the information presented, and monitoring where they regulate or keep track of progress. As the strategies develop they develop metacognition where one begins to think about their thinking. Students also learn through active involvement in the six components language arts.
What are the six components of Language Arts? How does teaching LA connect to how children learn?
The six components of language arts are listening, talking, reading, writing, viewing, and visually representing. Teaching Language Arts connects to how children learn by incorporating all six of the Language Arts components. For example literature focus units, literature circles, reading and writing workshop and across-the curriculum theme cycles include all six language arts as they read and respond to literature in focus units. As stated before students learn through active involvement and in order to teach the language arts components the students must be actively involved, which is helping them learn. Students can then take what they learned from the components and use them in other theme cycles in subjects like social studies and math.
According to Jean Piaget learning is the modification of students’ cognitive structures as they interact with and adapt to their environment. Piaget believed that children construct their own knowledge from their experiences. From this point of view it seems that children learn in a social environment. According to the text students gain their knowledge when they are actively involved allowing them to take from previous experiences and cultural backgrounds. Giving them many opportunities to model and discuss their learning. These ideas are based on Vygotsky, Bandura, Piage , and Bruner. The knowledge stored in the students’ brain is not a collection of isolated bits of information; it is instead organized and becomes integrated and interrelated as their knowledge grows. The organization is a cognitive structure and the knowledge is arranged in systems called schemata. Students learn when the existing schemata are enlarged because of assimilated information and when their schemata are restructured to account for new experiences being acted on and accommodated. Also according to the Information Processing Theory children use five general strategies to process information. These are: rehearsal in which they repeat information over and over, predicting where they anticipate what will happen, organizing where they group information, elaborating where they expand on the information presented, and monitoring where they regulate or keep track of progress. As the strategies develop they develop metacognition where one begins to think about their thinking. Students also learn through active involvement in the six components language arts.
What are the six components of Language Arts? How does teaching LA connect to how children learn?
The six components of language arts are listening, talking, reading, writing, viewing, and visually representing. Teaching Language Arts connects to how children learn by incorporating all six of the Language Arts components. For example literature focus units, literature circles, reading and writing workshop and across-the curriculum theme cycles include all six language arts as they read and respond to literature in focus units. As stated before students learn through active involvement and in order to teach the language arts components the students must be actively involved, which is helping them learn. Students can then take what they learned from the components and use them in other theme cycles in subjects like social studies and math.
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