field study 2

What were the objectives of this lesson? How well do you think your students understood the overall purpose and relevance of the lesson? (APS 4.A–C)

During the months of September and October this semester I spent time at two different schools in four different classrooms. Being able to observe different classes and teachers at Westside Junior High and South Live Oak Elementary was a very new and exciting experience for me since I can’t say I’ve always wanted to be a teacher. My experiences at these schools gave me a better insight into the differences between schools, classrooms, and teachers. The purpose of this field experience was to get 10 observation or tutoring hours in an elementary or junior high setting. I chose to observe a

1. Review text pages 137–139 in Chapter 4. These pages cover step 9 in the planning process, assessing the social context of negotiation.

Writing the teaching objectives and the learning outcomes, what the pupils will be able to do at the end of the lesson.

When the teacher shares and explain the learning objective with the pupils they will be giving the pupils a clear understanding of what they are to learn, they can check the childs understanding by asking questions, the support learning practitioner will also need to be aware of the learning objective.

2.Given the central focus, describe how the standards and learning objectives within learning segment promotes children’s active learning and multimodal nature of learning language and literacy development in an interdisciplinary context.

Take a moment to think about the learning skills and strategies you will need to accomplish today’s objective. How can word choice affect your feelings? How do comparisons help us understand more about the meaning of a poem? Open your digital notebook and describe your strategy and the learning skills you will use to succeed in this lesson.

Fieldwork is fundamental for an anthropologist, Heather Paxson anthropologist on the video said that being in the fieldwork gives you better understanding and helps the anthropologist to ask better questions, it is also interesting to see that fieldwork can be found at various locations and scenes. The whole video gives a better understanding of how important fieldwork is for anthropologist. Participant observant is crucial to ethnographers.

Ideally teachers should first look at how the objectives correspond to the larger goals and aims and then identify the skills required to achieve the objectives (Noddings, Aims, Goals and Objectives, 2007).

I observed and analyzed the design and delivery of an instructional unit in a Montessori school setting. I observed a classroom of grades 1-3 two times from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. at the Kennebec Montessori school. I was asked to sit quietly and to not interact with the children so I could get a realistic view of the class day and the children would pursue their chosen work.

The next law, leads us to the Law of the Lesson. This refers to the core of teaching. The advancement of knowledge means introducing new information and helping students to grasp it. A good teacher will find familiar information and examples to bring up when introducing a new truth. A student needs to know of a “known” to understand the “unknown.” The new information should be explained until the student is able to understand the new truth.

The “new education” that she invented will make learning fun, spontaneous and challenging. She diminished the traditional method of teaching by starting her children with writing. She felt the traditional method of teaching was very teacher-oriented and it lacks the role of children in education. The teacher dominates the class and gives instructions to the whole class. The children’s role is to sit, listen and absorb the information from teacher’s traditional academic instruction. Teachers sets the Curriculum materials themselves at a rapid pace plus the materials are not catered for individual needs. They are treated in a same manner; therefore teachers are not being able to address each child’s individual academic strengths and needs.

The Asterix field lies in 1,360 meters of water in the Norwegian North Sea on Block 6705/10 in PL 327B. The field is operated by Statoil, holding a 70% interest; Petoro holds 25%; and Norske Shell the remaining 10% interest.

In the study of cultural anthropology, fieldwork is a big factor in coming to a conclusion about one’s topic of research. After reading articles from both Raybeck and Faubion, it is clear that fieldwork may not be the only component to drawing conclusions about cultures. There are multiple factors within fieldwork itself that aids in drawing conclusions as expressed by Raybeck but the main conclusions an anthropologist comes up with is from analyzing the data that was found.

It has not been easy but challenging and interesting. Unfortunately in this present job I have no colleagues, institution authorities or supervisors, which means anything I do in the classroom hardly ever provides me any feedback of what I am doing. Except of course for the eventual commentaries I receive from my students and the annual performance evaluation. Therefore I had this urgent necessity of obtaining some refreshment and reviewing of what I am doing in my classroom. I need to make a stop to reflect about how effective my teaching is. If the things I am doing are adequate and suitable to take my pupils to achieve their goal to communicate in the target language. Teaching in this context was at the beginning of the journey a frightening and stressing episode, first of all because I did not know anything about mining, geology, finance and accounting, just to mention some and not to make myself look like a complete ignorant. Secondly the atmosphere in a corporate has nothing to do with the informal ambience in an elementary school and thirdly but not least important, the students expectations and perceptions are not the same. Thus, I had to remake myself.