All Classroom Design Posts
Equity
Teacher controlled vs. Student centered
Equity
Due November 24th at 11pm, comments due November 27th at 11pm (YES, do it early)
Blog Post (After watching Unequal Education)
- Discuss one question, confusion, or "I wonder...." you have from watching the video.
- Are Lonnie and James very different children? How do their environments affect them?
- What is different or unequal about the two schools? How do opportunities to learn differ? How do teacher expectations differ? How might these contribute to the achievement gap?
- Based on what you know about motivation and learning, why might students from Riverdale be more likely to succeed academically? What can you see happening to Lonnie in the video (especially towards the end)?
I will watch to make sure the video is still available in upcoming weeks. I've added the files to Oncourse.
Unequal Education: Failing Our Children Part 1
Unequal Education: Failing Our Children Part 2
Unequal Education: Failing Our Children Part 3
Teacher controlled vs. Student centered
Due November 17th at 11pm, comments due November 20th at 11pm
Blog Post 1 (After reading Module 18)
- Discuss one question, confusion, or "I wonder...." from reading the Module.
- Reflect on the statement "Teaching with a lot of control is easy. Handing control over to the students, and planning for every possible outcome, adapting instruction where they take it, is extremely difficult, but worth it." Why might this be so? How could you productively hand over some control to your students while still supporting learning?
Blog Post 2
- Watch the (quite vintage) videos below. You can skip through if you like.
- What elements do you see that are controlled by the teacher or centered around students? (specify which)
- What kind of motivation or learning differences would you expect from each class and why?
Classroom Design (Planning for Instruction) Blog Prompts
Due November 10th at 11pm, comments due November 13th at 11pm
Blog Post 1 (Deep Reading of Module 20)
- Discuss one question or confusion that you had about the material. Even if you think you understand everything, you must ask one question related to the material, its connection to other modules, or its implications.
- There are multiple 'Teaching Methods' described within the module.
- Mastery learning
- Direct instruction
- Discovery learning
- Expository teaching
- Inquiry learning
- Cooperative learning
- Methods of fostering comprehension
Choose two and explain how one or more theories may have influenced the instructional choices involved in the methods. You should be able to connect these methods with elements of development/learning/motivation theories that we have covered. It is NOT enough to say that 'Inquiry learning is clearly influenced by Piaget because he thought that kind of thing was a good idea.' Particular theories will 'match up' more or less with different theoretical assumptions.
In other words, describe how what a teacher considers as LEARNING influences how they choose to teach students.
Blog Post 2 (Creative activity)
- Which learning theory (or combination) did you find most intuitive or valuable in previous weeks? Which teaching method of those listed would you most like to use? Do these two 'match up'? Why or why not?
- Describe a lesson in your chosen teaching method. This is not a lesson plan, but describe how you would use the method to teach something (specify this), why you chose that method over others. What are your learning objectives and how does that method accomplish them?
