Acting With Choice : Acting With Choice

I complete the survey before reading the articles and thought I could use this to know more about my students. After reading the material, I learned that knowing the interests of my students can help me to prepare a class focused on their interests. Furthermore, it can help to create curiosity in them. “When we’re interested in what we’re learning, we pay closer attention; we process the information more efficiently; we employ more effective learning strategies, such as engaging in critical thinking, making connections between old and new knowledge, and attending to deep structure instead of surface features.”

By having good communication skills, we are able to successfully undertake the lesson. If I am unsure of anything after reading the lesson plan I am confident in asking the teacher to explain or elaborate more on the task set to the students or learning outcome. By

Using an interest inventory to discover what students in the classroom find most interesting can be extremely beneficial to the teacher. If the writing promotes interests, it is likely that the students will be much more encouraged to put forth effort and skill. It is important, however, that teachers limit the topic selection. Giving students a set of ideas will allow students to not be overwhelmed by topics but also allow them to select a topic that may be more interesting to them than others.

The learning outcomes are important. There has to be a reason on why something is being taught, and how it will be useful to the students future. Throughout the paper, I’m going to give you an example of a lesson plan I

This week I learned about differe\irente instruction. I also learn how to implement a lesson plan to meet the needs for each students in the classroom. Each child learning style is different one child might understand the problem one way and then another child might solve the problem a whole different way. I learned about exceptional children and how they need intensive learning and individualize learning. That why it is important to observe and know each individual child so you can support them to the bset of their ability. My host teacher used different strategies to help the students understand the problem. When I did my lesson plan if was a challenge and time consumer.I likle how the lesson plan met the needs of the children. The teacher put the students in different groups so they acn help each other learn. Sometimes children learn best and better from other children.My host teachger explain to me that

I observed that the students were finding themselves hard to concentrate on the lesson plan and I believe there were couple of reasons why the lesson failed to captivate the interest of the students. One of the reason is because, the activity of watching a movie and answering couple questions lacked the critical thinking process. Also, the students had to watch the same story videos from different websites which just seemed meaningless. The materials were extremely repetitive. Throughout the lesson, students had hard time sitting still and seem to lack interest; their heads were on the desks. Lastly, there were no hooks in the lesson plan to captivate the students that will make them desire to learn the

Every day the lesson plan for my class is fast paced and as exciting as possible. The idea is to keep them busy the entire class to avoid disengagement. If we are moving at a good pace it’s harder for a student to zone out or they miss a lot of information. Next, I utilize different types of materials to explain the topic of the day. I may start by giving notes and lecturing, then move on to a video where the same idea is communicated more visually. Changing up instruction methods seems to hold a student attention better than if I simply drone on lecturing. I also like to switch up activities, class may begin with a lecture for fifteen minutes then move on to a worksheet or some online learning. Changing activities provides a natural brain break, although at times I implant those by telling a joke or allowing a student to share a story.

When teaching a lesson, the first core teaching strategy I use to achieve my results is to engage the students and/or relate it to my students. Students learn much more effectively when they are engaged and interested in the topic they are learning. By creating an activity that gets the students involved and interested they will learn the material more easily and have fun while doing it. I could also relate their lives and interests in my lessons. Students will pay more attention when the topic is related to their lives.

Francessica Battiestelli sang the lyrics “It's your life whatcha gonna do, the world is watching you.” The lyrics explain that you can do what you want, but be careful because people are watching you. People make their own choices all the time. Making your own decisions is better than listening to others because you won't make bad decisions again, self wellness, and independence.

Back at my former high school, juniors spend a semester writing an Area of Interest (A.O.I.) essay. The purpose of the project is to prepare students for their future by teaching them valuable skills: researching, forming an argument, backing up that argument,

One way to alter thinking of students is to introduce the idea of achievement/motivation in the classroom. While brains change with age, brains also change and grow during learning and through experiences. Helping students understand their brain is changing and through learning, they can grow their minds, allows students to develop an achievement mindset. For example, by teaching students about the science of learning and how the brain stores memories, students can start to understand how to access these ideas or memories (Dweck, 2008). This is a great tool to use in a classroom to help students gain a control and understanding of their learning. This is another way to grasp cognitive development of teenagers and how this development can positively influence the classroom environment. Furthermore, we discussed how teachers can become less controlling in a classroom to support student’s autonomy and become more supportive of this aspect of brain development. When looking at research, students who participate in self-directed learning better understand the material and are more engaged and satisfied with their learning (Reeve, 2009). As a future teacher, I desire to adopt an autonomy supportive teaching style instead of a controlling style by providing independent or peer driven assignments. This is both helpful for student’s learning, brain development and, classroom

The curriculum and lesson plans can be too challenging for some student, the student(s) can

As proposed by Dymoke and Harrison, good lesson planning is essential to successful teaching in so far as stating, `It is often the case that poor teaching, classroom management and behaviour stem from lack of explicit planning` (2008, p.122) It is suggested then, that thorough planning is fundamental to the successful learning of pupils in many ways. Whilst allowing the teacher to follow a process of thinking, providing a mental practice session if you like, the act of planning therefore becomes an imperative aid for both student and teacher.

Learning is not a skill that is necessarily instinctual or easy, and therefore different approaches must be used to make learning easier and more fun for students. Teaching is not a skill that can be memorized or made repetitive, and so teachers must continue to challenge not only their students, but also themselves. Teachers that become complacent in their jobs are not good teachers. Those who can find a way to make an old lesson new and exciting will have an energized classroom, and will be reenergized themselves.

In order to teach successfully teachers must learn about first learn about their students. Teachers must assess the student’s capabilities and interests. Some students are visual learners, while others learn from hands on activities, or verbal communication. Not all students can learn through memorization, rather they learn through interest and relation to the topic. “To realize what an experience, or empirical situation, means, we have to call to mind the sort of situation that presents itself outside of school" (Democracy and Education). The curriculum should encompass material that is most useful for a student to learn. It seems that in the majority of schools, students are not given the flexibility to guide their own learning, but rather follow rigid instructions that destroy the student’s imagination.