My Views on Anne Hendricks; Views

[They] should think about other things and allow insights to pop into [their] heads” (89). We can see here that Brooks is pushing the idea of students needing time to slow down, dig into the material, and to be able to process the information. When Brooks uses the phrases “long period of gestation” and “time to connect things,” he is emphasizing the time portion. This is how he brings attention to students needing time to think, and time to examine from different perspectives. Although some people believe that effective learning is the ability for a student to memorize and regurgitate facts, Brooks argues that when a student has time to be able to master the material and fully understand it, this is effective learning. In sum, then, his view is that students need time to slow down and think about the material in order to learn

Graff underestimates the students ability of understanding and reaching out for help. Student can ask question during TA’s or professor's office hour to ensure they understand the material. As an illustration, John Merrow’s Declining by Degree: Higher Education at Risk shows a young student, Brittany Schmidt, being an assertive and independent adult. She initially has an “identity crisis” with the lectures having hundred-fifty people in it and the class wasn’t challenging her enough. Nevertheless, Schmidt turn to Dr. Robert Brown whom she asked questions and spent time with. She found guidances and encouragement from Dr. Brown which resulted in Schmidt success and choice of career, Planetary Sciences. I believe communication is the key for education and success, between students and professors. Most colleges provide tutoring for students, so they can get additional help from the resources they have at their disposal. Many student like Brittany Schmidt can take initiative to look at their syllabus and decide whether reading or skimming ahead of lectures, so they can at least have an idea what the lesson will be about. It starts with students taking initiative because at the end of the day it's their

Another important point of this lecture, in my opinion, that has application in teaching is discrimination. Although all teaching assistants may be aware of the consequences of discrimination and therefore they may not intentionally want to do this act, they should act in a way that all students feel that the teaching assistant does not discriminate against them. For example, in lab classes, the teaching assistant should spend an equal time to ask the question of each student. If a TA spend 20 minutes to answer the question of a specific student, for instance, the rest of students may feel that the TA want to help him or her more than others. I, personally, take at most 5 minutes to answering the question of each student so that there will

Another major issue that is addressed in the article is with the teachers and their teaching styles. The method in which most teachers teach their

In his book Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry explores how the trials and tribulations one experiences shape them from the beginning of life until death. Janne Teller writes, “Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you begin to die. That’s how it is with everything” In detailing Hannah Coulter’s life, Berry shows how the era she grew up in, the people surrounding her, and various life events formed the qualities and characteristics of the woman she became.

Hutchinson held Bible study meetings for women that soon had great appeal to men as well. Eventually, she went beyond Bible study to proclaiming boldly facets of her own theological interpretations, some of which offended colony leadership. Great controversy ensued, and after an arduous trial before a jury of officials from both government and clergy, eventually she was banished from her colony.The assertive Anne was now becoming a religious leader to many, and this worried John Winthrop, a long time opponent of Anne's views, and the newly appointed Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Winthrop recognized her as a threat to the authority of the men in power, and the thought of women expressing their views on Church and communal matters

This is an article wrote by Mark Edmundson, a professor at the University of Virginia. In this article, Edmundson starts out with how he dislikes that people say something to the effect of teachers learn from their students. He goes on to say how he does learn more about how to teach based on the feedback he gets from his students.

Additionally, Paula struggles staying focused and on-task during class instruction. Paula frequently gets lost and distracted with the material in front of her, but Paula makes up for it with her dedication to answer the question correctly. Frequently, Paula observes her peers respond during whole class discussions and also answers some of the questions asked during these discussions. The teacher uses these opportunities as a learning opportunity to highlight the correct answer or guide the students into saying the correct answer. It is great that Paula wants to participate in classroom discussions because she remains fully engaged and frequently offered the opportunity to state his own understandings about the concept or skill he is being taught. Drawing on this observation and the use of intervention work, the teacher can plan future opportunities to allow the students to not only communicate their understandings about the content they are being taught, but to also further drive in the content he is being

By watching the video I could determine that the kids in Jenny’s class able to formulate ideas that were indicative of a preoperational level of thinking. However, I believe that there were students in her class that had the mental capacity of concrete operational thinking. I feel as though the type of instruction that she was giving her class was appropriate in respect to the thinking level that the students had, and her strategies were effective because it made the students reflect on concepts that they may not have interacted with in

Alison Melotti-Cormack wrote this short narrative called¨The Gestures of Grace”. Alison purposes of writing this narrative is to inform other teachers that all kids have a specific way of being tought. Alison says that all teachers need to be able to know when they are getting agitated and make a system to help prevent an explosion from the teacher happen. Alison also hopes that every teacher will be able to connect with their students. To rape it the whole thing up is that the author´s point in the message is that the teacher loves to learn, able to connect with their students, will eventually learns to understand their students behaviour, to listen to what their students say, and that there qualities progresses over time.

In order for him to accomplish this, he focused more on the five questioning strategies: never say anything a kid can't say, ask good questions, replace lectures with sets of questions, use more process questions, and to be patient. He stressed the importance of teachers not only asking quality questions that guided a student's thinking abilities but to also allow students the time they need to actually think through their observations to arrive at an answer they are most confident in (Reinhart, 2000). I liked his "wait time" approach, as it is important for us to always give our students time to process their understanding of the question to arrive at their answers rather than always asking a question and calling upon the first hand we see. I agree because often times, students who are timid do not want to be called on so they either do not complete the work to arrive at an answer and if they do not know the actual answer, they do not know the proper steps they need to take in order to arrive at the right answer. This method can be productive for both the students and the teacher. I can see some positive aspects of Reinhart's position of a student-based teaching method. It promotes self-confidence in the students. Students at this level are more peer-conscious and if

In the practice of teaching, it is the responsibility of a teacher not only to teach students subject matter, but to teach students in order to enable them to grow and develop as a person. While it is essential for students to have an understanding of academic material, it is also equally as important that when students finish their education they have skills to use in

Students are placed in the responsibility of their own learning and understanding while the teachers encourage students to be more independent and more exploratory. The teachers will foster a sense of autonomy in the learning process as they act as a source of experiences. In addition, as the students watch their teacher makes mistakes, they will learn those failures are part of the learning process. The students will soon realize that mistakes are natural in life and it will serve as stepping stones to

Like Dr.Jones' two students Jill and Jack, he meet them one by one, Jill said:" I had some trouble and couldn't keep up ,so I got a F. But I want you to know that that book we were discussing, really got me thinking. I finished reading it after the semester was over" that is what's she got, she got the knowledge for thinking but got a F grade. Another student Jack said:"I had your class last fall, got an A. I really need that A and a studied really hard. I'm glad i don't have to take your final today, because I don't think i'd get a single answer right" look at what's he got, it's just an A and nothing. For me, if I want to pass the physical class, only I need is just work out the question in book and remember the answer and method, I don’t have to know how the established law of physical work in our life. I do know the law in paper but I can’t use it. Which one is successful for the teacher? not me or Jack, is Jill. She" learning experience in the class and continued after the class was over, changed her understanding", what she got is the skill of learning but not the knowledge or some grade. Another simple example for the teacher’s teach in class, there is an apple in front of you with an axe, a knife and a mace, they will tell you direct the knife is the most easier tool for cut the apple, but not let you to try out it by yourself. What you learn is just the knowledge and the method but we don’t learn the

“It has been said: not all learning takes place in classroom. Compare and contrast knowledge gained from personal experience with knowledge gained from classroom instruction. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?“