Week 23 Questions Ch 1-3
Chapter 1: Gina Q1,Standards have altered teacher preparation programs and curriculum requirements in schools. The intention behind standardization is to ensure equivalent and consistent instruction and to provide measurable outcomes. Do you believe that the implementation of standards identified by national, state, and curriculum organizations has accomplished their intent? Explain why or why not. Standards are in my opinion necessary and important, they serve as guides for schools to follow to create instruction. Teachers, parents and students use standards as a tool to ensure that curriculum focuses on what students are expected to learn. Without standards, districts and schools would not have a goal. Standards allow curriculum to be transparent-by matching what is taught in the classroom to the standards in each subject area, students will know what teachers should be teaching, what students should be learning and what they will be tested on. If all schools across the country had the same standards, all students would be expected to achieve at the same level, no matter what state they live in. If students in Mississippi were required to know the same things as students in Oregon, for example, they would be prepared to attend universities throughout the country. National standards would make it easier for students to adjust to a new school when they move from one state to another. Historically American students have repeatedly fallen behind in math and science when compared to their peers in other countries. With national standards, it would be clear what students need to know to compete internationally. In my opinion, in an increasingly mobile population, it would be easier for students who currently face differing standards and different tests in each state if our country would implement national standards it could help American student scores internationally. Unfortunately we have not adopted a national curriculum, I do see how advantageous it could be to American Students. Chapter 2: Gina Q2, Different students have different learning styles and their learning styles influence their learning. As a teacher, you should understand your students learning styles when preparing for the classes. Discuss your understanding on different learning styles and its influence on learning. Classrooms have changed over last 7-10 years and technology has become an integral part of teaching and instructing 21st Century learners. Students are developing critical thinking skills, learning new concepts and creatively expressing their own ideas with the aid of electronic devices. Although technology has been integrated and changed how how curriculum can be presented the learning styles of our students have not changed. The learner styles are visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Visual learners learn by reading directions or seeing a demonstration. They often need to see concepts by viewing pictures, diagrams and charts. Teachers can use technology to produce visual aids to help these students understand the lesson. For example, teachers can create a PowerPoint that outlines key points and includes pictures or diagrams. This simple practice helps visual learners focus and understand the material better. Auditory learning students comprehend and remember information through listening and speaking. Presentations and public speaking assignments accommodate this learning style. However, technology can also enhance these students’ educational experience. Younger learners can utilize an iPad app called Me Books. The app allows students to choose from a variety of children’s books featuring beloved characters such as Peppa Pig and Peter Rabbit. Students have the ability to read along as a voice recording reads aloud. The app gives the user the ability to record their own voices as they practice reading. This app does have in app purchases, but auditory learners can greatly benefit from hearing their own voice sound out new words. Kinesthetic learners need to perform interactive activities to understand new concepts. They thrive while working on hands-on projects. Technology offers many ways of accommodating this learning style. If kinesthetic learners need extra help they can use programs such as Khan Academy which can illustrate concepts and allows them to complete problems to understand difficult concepts. This program creates videos as guides and allows it learners to use the knowledge from the video to complete tasks. It has a great program that teaches students Html and CSS for creating a website. Chapter 3: Gina Q3, This chapter introduced you that lesson planning was an outgrowth of your instructional design. The DID section helped you see the overall organization of your instructional unit, and this lesson plan section helped you address what you would do to achieve the unit on an instructional day-to-day basis. Now identify, describe and use the most common steps in lesson planning. The Dynamic Instructional Design (DID) model is built on a continuous internal and external feedback loop to ensure that each step of the process is performing at its best. Continual self-analysis, feedback, and correction are built into the model to accentuate its flexibility while maintaining integrity. The process is changing and dynamic. Step 1 –Know the Learners. The first step suggests that the instructor must design lessons to meet the needs of the individuals in the classroom. If the facilitator does not take into consideration the needs of the learners they will not have a successful professional development. The facilitator must view their learners as unique individuals and then professional developement will have a higher rate of success or meeting the intended objectives. Knowing your learners needs means that the facilitator has identified and addressed the factors that can aid with learning such as learning styles,cognitive style and ability as well as special needs. This can all be assessed by needs assessment prior to the course. Step 2 –Standards Aligned Performance Objectives. Performance objectives also known as learning outcomes identify the content or other standards the objectives address. Another role of performance objectives is to ensure that the teaching and learning experience includes a full range of cognitive levels from simple recall of facts to higher-order critical thinking. Blooms Taxonomy –provides useful delineation of the levels of thinking that should be included when creating objectives. Step 3 –Identify Teaching and Learning Strategies. Teaching strategies are the methods you will use to assist your students in achieving the objectives. Learning strategies are the techniques and activities that you will require your students to engage in to master the content. Step 4 –Select Support Technologies – Technology should support an instructor’s professional decision as to which strategies are the best to teach with and which are best to assist the learner. Step 5 –Assess and Revise. Facilitators must end with an evaluation-this will allow the facilitator to measure their effectiveness and allow them to make appropriate revisions. Having a successful rubric or student feedback form is important. The DID model helps instructors ask themselves critical questions that will improve the quality of the instructional experience for both them-self and the students. All rights reserved © 2019 Gina Pepperman.
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Merita Swan
6/17/2019 05:46:58 am
Hi Gina,
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Shane Seal
6/23/2019 06:29:00 pm
I would love to see a national curriculum focused more around collaboration, creativity, problem solving, and logical thinking. This would allow our students to participate in jobs and markets abroad that we can't even imagine today. I feel like that is our primary job in education: To prepare our students for tomorrow. Unfortunately a lot of times I feel that we are only preparing them for yesterday.
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Brandon Warden
7/14/2019 03:03:23 pm
I agree with you Gina on how standards are necessary and important. National standards on the other hand would take away from the opportunity to teach to careers that are local in the community. However the State standards aren’t doing much for that either. I think about how we don’t focus enough on teaching about the Gulf of Mexico when that can offer student career potential.
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