1.Students are useing phonics and are turning one syallable words into 2 or 3.
2.To help student reading skills increase.
3.They will play many diffrent games that involves ryhming.
4.How can I use a variety of rhyming games to help my students reconized rhyme and word families in text?
5.Students will work in groups and it is allowing visual and auditory learners to learn in the small groups.
6.Students will be given a test to indentify rhyming words in the passage.
Monday, December 5, 2011
It's More Then Throwing Out The Ball
2.Why self-reflection and portfolios?
3.Setting Objectives
4.The students where giving a list of learning objective.
5.Presentations and Papers for a portfolio.
6.It was analyzed by students who increased knowledge and pasted.
7. 73.3% rise in students who scored at or above grade level. 51.9%decreased in students who scored below grade level.
8.It shows that if you put the learning process in the students hands then they will rise to the challenge.
3.Setting Objectives
4.The students where giving a list of learning objective.
5.Presentations and Papers for a portfolio.
6.It was analyzed by students who increased knowledge and pasted.
7. 73.3% rise in students who scored at or above grade level. 51.9%decreased in students who scored below grade level.
8.It shows that if you put the learning process in the students hands then they will rise to the challenge.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Assessment Crisis #17
"If we wish to maximize student achievement in the U.S., we must
pay far greater attention to the improvement of classroom
assessment."
This excert from the reading really sums up the reading. It talks about how high stakes testing is not bad at all. They just need to approach it in a difrent way so the students who don't do well with it don't just give up. It talks about assessment for learning a lot and how if we can let students learn at there own pace they do better.
It talks about the politician in this country and how some of them understand that this needs to change, but they don't know how to do it. We as a country have been doing high stakes test since the school system started and have only added more test over the last hundred years. As we look now we see that the numbers are not going up because students are feeling hopeless.
What needs to be done is to teach teachers how to do better assessment in the class. And also let them have a little more lead way in the class. Right now there is so many deadlines and goverment programs to tell them what to teach when and how long to teach it. We need to worry more about the for learners then the of learners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFySmS9_y_0
Citation "An Introduction to Project-Based Learning - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 02 Nov. 2011..
pay far greater attention to the improvement of classroom
assessment."
This excert from the reading really sums up the reading. It talks about how high stakes testing is not bad at all. They just need to approach it in a difrent way so the students who don't do well with it don't just give up. It talks about assessment for learning a lot and how if we can let students learn at there own pace they do better.
It talks about the politician in this country and how some of them understand that this needs to change, but they don't know how to do it. We as a country have been doing high stakes test since the school system started and have only added more test over the last hundred years. As we look now we see that the numbers are not going up because students are feeling hopeless.
What needs to be done is to teach teachers how to do better assessment in the class. And also let them have a little more lead way in the class. Right now there is so many deadlines and goverment programs to tell them what to teach when and how long to teach it. We need to worry more about the for learners then the of learners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFySmS9_y_0
Citation "An Introduction to Project-Based Learning - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 02 Nov. 2011.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century #15
1. The paper talks about two schools in England that one was not a PBL and the other was. The PBL school out did the other school on the national test in England. This is one exaple of how PBL schools increase students knowledge.
2. It challegences the students to research and and read matterial that are a little bit above the students reading level becasue they want to learn more about the subject they are talking about.
3. The main reason is that thay are doing learning that matters. The students are excited to learn and will remmember it becasue it is relavent to them.
4.The reason PBL and Dewey align so well is that Dewey believe that students build on background knowledge throught the use of a PBL project.
5. We need to assess on real skills and knowledge to help student improve on students background skills and add to new schema. We do not need to just have student spit out the same imforamtion that the teacher stand in front and tells the student they need to know.
2. It challegences the students to research and and read matterial that are a little bit above the students reading level becasue they want to learn more about the subject they are talking about.
3. The main reason is that thay are doing learning that matters. The students are excited to learn and will remmember it becasue it is relavent to them.
4.The reason PBL and Dewey align so well is that Dewey believe that students build on background knowledge throught the use of a PBL project.
5. We need to assess on real skills and knowledge to help student improve on students background skills and add to new schema. We do not need to just have student spit out the same imforamtion that the teacher stand in front and tells the student they need to know.
Teaching for Meaningful Learning #14
One of the main challenges is skills and knowledge of the teacher who implement this in there class.Since a lot of teacher do not know how to do it feel that it is unstructured.Also if the students do not have proper support,guidance, and structure then it doesn't help the students learn.This is just some of the reason this type of learning doesn't take off in all classrooms.
Leaning increases in leap and bounds.Johnson & Johnson said from the reading this "there are significant learning benefits for students who work together on learning activities." The reason is that lower level student learn from the upper level peers and do not feel left out.Forty years of research on cooperative learning, they identify five "basic elements" of cooperation that have emerged as important across multiple models: positive interdependence, individual accountability, structures that promote face-to-face interaction, social skills, and group processing. (edutopia Pg 11). This was found along in the reading and it tells a lot of the skill research has found that collaborative groups help students build.
This link support social skill on the web. http://vimeo.com/6224484
Leaning increases in leap and bounds.Johnson & Johnson said from the reading this "there are significant learning benefits for students who work together on learning activities." The reason is that lower level student learn from the upper level peers and do not feel left out.Forty years of research on cooperative learning, they identify five "basic elements" of cooperation that have emerged as important across multiple models: positive interdependence, individual accountability, structures that promote face-to-face interaction, social skills, and group processing. (edutopia Pg 11). This was found along in the reading and it tells a lot of the skill research has found that collaborative groups help students build.
This link support social skill on the web. http://vimeo.com/6224484
Friday, October 14, 2011
Struggling Student
I am in a physical education class. The student I am watching is a mute student. The child can not speak, which makes it tough to get information across to the student. The main teacher uses flash card to get information to the student. The child also has a aid that helps with the interutation in class for the student. All this support should help the student be able to function in main stream class. The class mates do really well with the struggling student and know what the child want and helps him get it.
Teacher/Student Questions
Teacher
1.What foot is your dominate foot?
2.What are the rules in soccer?
3.Can you touch the ball with your hands?
4.Who can touch the ball in soccer?
5.What side of the foot do you kick the ball with?
Student
1.Are we playing a game?
2.Can we have a free day?
3.Can I seat out today?
4.I need to use the restroom?
5.Can I play in sandals today?
1.What foot is your dominate foot?
2.What are the rules in soccer?
3.Can you touch the ball with your hands?
4.Who can touch the ball in soccer?
5.What side of the foot do you kick the ball with?
Student
1.Are we playing a game?
2.Can we have a free day?
3.Can I seat out today?
4.I need to use the restroom?
5.Can I play in sandals today?
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Teaching for Meaningful Learning #13
1. Teacher and the textbook as the primary source of knowledge.
2.Student Drive (Thomas 2000), Increases exploration and thought (Boaler 1997), growth in their ability to support their reasoning with clear arguments (Stepien, Gallagher, & Workman, 1993)
3.Identify what they need to learn in order to solve a problem, and generate strategies for solution (Barrows, 1996; Hmelo-Silver, 2004), Students who are enrolled in problem-based curricula score higher on clinical problem-solving measures and on actual ratings of clinical performance (Vernon & Blake, 1993; Albanese & Mitchell, 1993),Similar problem- or case-based approaches have been used in business, law, and teacher education to help students learn to analyze complex, multifaceted situations and to develop knowledge to guide decisionmaking (see, e.g. Lundeberg, Levin, & Harrington, 1999; Savery & Duffy, 1996; Williams, 1992).
4.Good for helping students develop understanding of complex systems, noting that the systems can be presented as a united whole whose structure is adapted to specific purposes (Perkins, 1986),Direct instruction with inquiry opportunities, scaffolding the learning of individual students through modeling and feedback, facilitating learning among multiple groups, and developing assessments to guide the learning process (Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Marx et al., 1994, 1997; Rosenfeld & Rosenfeld, 1998; Sage, 1996)
5. The main difference is they focus on different areas, such as one is meaningful learning, one is problem and how to solve them, and the last is creating something and figure out how to do it with little matters.
6.To make the lesson meaningful for the learner so they will retain more of it.
2.Student Drive (Thomas 2000), Increases exploration and thought (Boaler 1997), growth in their ability to support their reasoning with clear arguments (Stepien, Gallagher, & Workman, 1993)
3.Identify what they need to learn in order to solve a problem, and generate strategies for solution (Barrows, 1996; Hmelo-Silver, 2004), Students who are enrolled in problem-based curricula score higher on clinical problem-solving measures and on actual ratings of clinical performance (Vernon & Blake, 1993; Albanese & Mitchell, 1993),Similar problem- or case-based approaches have been used in business, law, and teacher education to help students learn to analyze complex, multifaceted situations and to develop knowledge to guide decisionmaking (see, e.g. Lundeberg, Levin, & Harrington, 1999; Savery & Duffy, 1996; Williams, 1992).
4.Good for helping students develop understanding of complex systems, noting that the systems can be presented as a united whole whose structure is adapted to specific purposes (Perkins, 1986),Direct instruction with inquiry opportunities, scaffolding the learning of individual students through modeling and feedback, facilitating learning among multiple groups, and developing assessments to guide the learning process (Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Marx et al., 1994, 1997; Rosenfeld & Rosenfeld, 1998; Sage, 1996)
5. The main difference is they focus on different areas, such as one is meaningful learning, one is problem and how to solve them, and the last is creating something and figure out how to do it with little matters.
6.To make the lesson meaningful for the learner so they will retain more of it.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Socail Discource #12
3 Things I learned
1)That teacher have to help students with linguistic in school.
2)Hospitals do not use spoken language to communicate what is wrong.
3)Students start to learn how to communicate is through the use of specific questions.
2 Things I found interesting.
1.Teachers have to nurture the use of language for there students.
2.Teacher usually wait one second or less for a reply to questions.
1 Question I have.
1)If we as teachers help students learn how to speak, why is it so hard for students to learn how to read.
1)That teacher have to help students with linguistic in school.
2)Hospitals do not use spoken language to communicate what is wrong.
3)Students start to learn how to communicate is through the use of specific questions.
2 Things I found interesting.
1.Teachers have to nurture the use of language for there students.
2.Teacher usually wait one second or less for a reply to questions.
1 Question I have.
1)If we as teachers help students learn how to speak, why is it so hard for students to learn how to read.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Top 10 Project #11
1. The problem or question has meaning to the students. (They are learning how to use a computer, research, and create a web page, which all have meaning to the student.)
2.There is a external audience for the student work.( They presented the activity to the BOE, community groups, and there was a map that showed people who viewed and and where they where from.)
3.Students develop new habits of mind.(They questioned how the top ten list was rated and saw that the to ten list from there books was not fact it was opinion from someone else.)
4.5.2 pose a grade-appropriate question that can be addressed with data, collect, organize, display, and analyze data in order to answer the question.
4.1.4 demonstrate curiosity, initiative and creativity by developing questions that lead to investigations; designing simple experiments; and trusting observations of discoveries when trying new tasks and skills.
4.1.6 support statements with facts found through research from various sources, including technology.
2.There is a external audience for the student work.( They presented the activity to the BOE, community groups, and there was a map that showed people who viewed and and where they where from.)
3.Students develop new habits of mind.(They questioned how the top ten list was rated and saw that the to ten list from there books was not fact it was opinion from someone else.)
4.5.2 pose a grade-appropriate question that can be addressed with data, collect, organize, display, and analyze data in order to answer the question.
4.1.4 demonstrate curiosity, initiative and creativity by developing questions that lead to investigations; designing simple experiments; and trusting observations of discoveries when trying new tasks and skills.
4.1.6 support statements with facts found through research from various sources, including technology.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Technology Resources
1. 4 computer
2.They all have internet access.
3. Yes, you can access google tools
4. No lap top cart
5. All of them have it.
6. Library,Mcdonald, or Burger King has internet.
2.They all have internet access.
3. Yes, you can access google tools
4. No lap top cart
5. All of them have it.
6. Library,Mcdonald, or Burger King has internet.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Getting to Know You Students #10
The question is why is kid watching a critical practice for teachers. Well this is simple to answer, because you learn a lot just from watching how they interact with other students, alone, or in collaborative groups. This also allows you to collect information on there likes or strength in certain areas. It is a wonderful tool for students who maybe shy and reserved.
Kid watching is informed by cultural differences theory, because as we know each student bring some information already to class with them every day. This information is gathered from the culture they are raised in and have had close contact with. Just like the little boy who didn't like to read the teacher found a interest from his background that made him want to read soccer books. Just by kid watching and a small survey she learned so much and could help the student develop a like for the written language.
This is a very great tactic for new teachers and even for the veteran. Every year your students change so does the interest and culture of that community. Just standing back and taking notes will help you get a better understand of the students in your class and help you develop more positive ways to reach out to them in the classroom.
Kid watching is informed by cultural differences theory, because as we know each student bring some information already to class with them every day. This information is gathered from the culture they are raised in and have had close contact with. Just like the little boy who didn't like to read the teacher found a interest from his background that made him want to read soccer books. Just by kid watching and a small survey she learned so much and could help the student develop a like for the written language.
This is a very great tactic for new teachers and even for the veteran. Every year your students change so does the interest and culture of that community. Just standing back and taking notes will help you get a better understand of the students in your class and help you develop more positive ways to reach out to them in the classroom.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Getting to Know Your Students #9
The reason you allow the students to use primary language is so that it is easy for them to make a connection to there main language and the new one they are learning. This makes the transition easier because it allows the student to use english and there main language in the writting they do. This doesn't apply to appalachian dialect because english is the main language they just need to brush up on the rules and right way to use the language they already know.
Students and Teachers see everything in diffrent ways. This is why if you ask them to wite about the samething the views would be really diffrent from each other.
http://www.appalachianstudies.org/resources/K12/ASAs_K12-ResourceDirectory.pdf
Appalachian Studies Association :: ASA. Web. 26 Sept. 2011..
Students and Teachers see everything in diffrent ways. This is why if you ask them to wite about the samething the views would be really diffrent from each other.
http://www.appalachianstudies.org/resources/K12/ASAs_K12-ResourceDirectory.pdf
Appalachian Studies Association :: ASA. Web. 26 Sept. 2011.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Getting to Know Your Students #8
1.Just because they people share the same language doesn't mean they will get along.When the teacher paired Bianca with Rosa and they did talk at all.
2.It takes longer for them to learn English. Bianca would translate thing to Rosa in Spanish with wouldn't help her English at all.
3. Even though they share the same culture there experiences are different. We know Bianca dad had to stay in Mexico and she didn't understand why.
Virtual backpack is the stuff you already know and you bring ti with you all the time. This is realated to funds of knowlege in the fact you can use the stuff from the backp-ack in the classroom to help the learning process happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhrkjmE5yRI
2.It takes longer for them to learn English. Bianca would translate thing to Rosa in Spanish with wouldn't help her English at all.
3. Even though they share the same culture there experiences are different. We know Bianca dad had to stay in Mexico and she didn't understand why.
Virtual backpack is the stuff you already know and you bring ti with you all the time. This is realated to funds of knowlege in the fact you can use the stuff from the backp-ack in the classroom to help the learning process happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhrkjmE5yRI
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Culturally Responsive Teaching #6
When we first got this assigment I knew exactly what I was going to talk about, and who. Coach Baker intro class let us see how a teacher can be a facilitater. He gave use little instruction and allowed us to mold it into anything we wanted, which was a great experience. He also allowed us to work in groups which allowed us to pull from diffrent backgrouds and learn new thing and information. His mini lesson in class really allowed me to realize that teaching was what I wanted to do. When someone says the word culturally responsive I think of this class and Coach Baker.
Www.units.muohio.edu. Web. 11 Sept. 2011.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Teaching of Writing #5
Things Learned
1.Writing has a voice.(Not one you speak with words)
2.Hard for a young child to write what they can say.
3.Computer allow every level of readers to read.
Interesting Items
1.Drawing is a form of writing.
2.Spoken word is hard to write.
Question
1. Why is English the easies to speak but the hardest to write?
1.Writing has a voice.(Not one you speak with words)
2.Hard for a young child to write what they can say.
3.Computer allow every level of readers to read.
Interesting Items
1.Drawing is a form of writing.
2.Spoken word is hard to write.
Question
1. Why is English the easies to speak but the hardest to write?
Related Resource
Citation
Matured..., Our Jobless. Support Site for The Unemployed & Underemployed Support Site for The Unemployed & Underemployed. Web. 07 Sept. 2011.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Funds of Knowledge #4
Quote
"Moll urged them to help students find meaning rather then learning isolated facts and rules."
Reaction
When i was reading the article this here really stuck out to me. This research shows that students don't learn the best with just being talked to the whole time they are in the classroom. We need to take from students strenghts and their backgrounds and start teaching to students strengths. Students don't start school without some type of knowledge. It may not be the cutty cook form that all the older teachers are use to following. If we would just look close we will see students who do math on construction sites with parents or student who write there own poems with their friends. All of these are things we can build on in our classroom. It is time to stop talking to our students like they know nothing and start listening to what they already have to show us.
Realated Resources
Refrence
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
As Soon as she opened her Mouth #2
Quote
"Appalachian woman speak for only a few minutes and powerful attitudes of prejudice and assumptions of inferiority are elicited."
Reaction
This quote is very real in today's world and culture. Just because you may speak or sound different then someone else they assume you are uneducated and don't know how to read. This is not the case. Reading and the spoken language to not go hand in hand as we may assume. The research says that is matters about the amount of exposer you had young and a little about your SES status. Just because you may speak different doesn't mean there is anything wrong with your reading and doesn't mean you are not smart. We as a culture have created this stereotype to separate the different social classes in America. If we all would just accept that everyone is different the better off this world would be.
Related Resources
"Appalachian woman speak for only a few minutes and powerful attitudes of prejudice and assumptions of inferiority are elicited."
Reaction
This quote is very real in today's world and culture. Just because you may speak or sound different then someone else they assume you are uneducated and don't know how to read. This is not the case. Reading and the spoken language to not go hand in hand as we may assume. The research says that is matters about the amount of exposer you had young and a little about your SES status. Just because you may speak different doesn't mean there is anything wrong with your reading and doesn't mean you are not smart. We as a culture have created this stereotype to separate the different social classes in America. If we all would just accept that everyone is different the better off this world would be.
Related Resources
Reference
Google/ Web Images
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tall Tales of Appalachia #1
Quote
"My own father spent his life backing up, apologizing for the space he took up in this world."
Reaction
Reading about how bad the stereotype is about this fine state it made me very mad. The quote I have chosen to talk about talks about a man apologizing to people because he was from West Virginia and this made him feel less of a man. West Virginians are just like every other person in this country and we have not thing to be ashamed of. If it wasn't for use they would have coal to power the plants that turn there lights. Now a days more and more West Virginia children are going to college because they don't believe that they are not better then anyone else.I was born and raise in this great state and I would never hesitate to tell someone where I am from because I and proud to be apart of a rich and wonderful place as this one and I believe all the other people are jealous because we have so much in this state and they have nothing.
Related Resources
"My own father spent his life backing up, apologizing for the space he took up in this world."
Reaction
Reading about how bad the stereotype is about this fine state it made me very mad. The quote I have chosen to talk about talks about a man apologizing to people because he was from West Virginia and this made him feel less of a man. West Virginians are just like every other person in this country and we have not thing to be ashamed of. If it wasn't for use they would have coal to power the plants that turn there lights. Now a days more and more West Virginia children are going to college because they don't believe that they are not better then anyone else.I was born and raise in this great state and I would never hesitate to tell someone where I am from because I and proud to be apart of a rich and wonderful place as this one and I believe all the other people are jealous because we have so much in this state and they have nothing.
Related Resources
I chose this picture of the flighing WV and the monutaineer to show that we need to be strong and stand up against anyone who wants to knock this great state down.
References
Sports Geekery/Following Sports with Computers, Mobile Apps, & Gadgets.
Web. 24 Aug. 2011http://www.sportsgeekery.com/.
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