Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Blog Post #9
Mr. McClung's What I've learned this year- In Mr. McClung's essay he made some very valuable points in a short and simple essay. As future teachers, we should follow what he says in these essays. He is right about the lesson plans, teachers get so tied up with preparing their lesson plans for their principals that teachers often forget who the lesson plan is actually for. It's unfortunate that in the classroom now, the teachers are always having to drill the students with testing and how to prepare the students for the tests. Those tests are such important on the teacher and the school as a whole, the teachers focus solely on testing. I'm sure as a beginner teacher, I will go in focusing strictly on my lesson plan and making sure my principal will like it, that I will get side tracked in remembering that it's for the students. I really liked what he said about teacher/student relationship, "I truly believe that teachers do not know enough about the students they are teaching. In order to build the respect that we all seek in a student teacher relationship, it is important to take interest their the lives of our students. It's that important." I have always said that I think it's important that the teachers always listen to the students and get to know each student's individual personality. I asked my teacher one day that I was observing how she gets her children to behave so well, and she said because she knows each of their personalities and how to handle them when they get upset.
Friday, March 25, 2011
C4K-Posts 4-6
C4K-#4- I was assigned to Mr. Mike Harris's classroom, Room 19, in Auckland, New Zealand. The student's blog I looked at was Gabrielle from Pt. England School in Grade 7. In her first blog she wrote about how excited she was about getting to go to camp in three days. The children are split into groups called, Respectablez, Carez, Motavatiez, and the Thinkers. Gabrielle was in the Respectablez group. The name of the camp is "Take Charge". The school gives them an oppurtunity to go to the camp and learn ways to take charge. That seems to be their motto in the school, because I later viewed another video called Take Charge. Her next blog was about "Surf Life Saving at Mairangi Bay". The children went on a field trip to Mairangi Bay to learn about water safety. Gabrielle said that it was freezing outside but she went on ahead and got in the water with her board. She only lasted about ten seconds in the cold water and ended up with a little cough. Although she got a cough, she said the day was enjoyable and full of laughs and a good time.
C4K-#5- The next blog was Ms. Jenny's Year 6 classs at Pt. England School. Their class blog is called "Little Voices, Little Scholars". I watched a video on the classblog on the school picnic they have every year. The School picnic gives the kids an oppurtunity to have fun with their school friends, teachers, and family. They all come to together and play games, do potterty, play on the playground, and swim in the ocean. Every kid wears a big red hat that looks like they are going on a field trip. It really looked like such a fun time to just spend the whole day having fun with everyone from school.
I looked at Angelo's blog and his first blog was a video of him describing his wonderful weekend. In his video he talked about how he rode his bike to his grandmother's house. The next blog was "Learning to Take Charge Video". It had pictures of the kids art work of them going out and doing productive things to take charge. The video would transition between a topic and then a child would speak. It showed the children on the playground, doing work in class, learning how to swim, and playing together. Each child would say they take charge and follow instructions, or use safety on the play ground, or focus in school. I thought it was really interesting that the children get the chance to swim during P.E. I would have loved that as a child, because I always loved to be in the water.
C4K-#6- The next blog I looked at was Room 14, The Explorers, in Taurango, New Zealand. I looked at a girls blog named Lucy. I watched a video that her and another girl created on "How is culture reflected through the arts?" The classroom made art work that reflected the same that the Greeks did. They also would make art work that went along with a Greek god they learned about. The girls made a video of the classroom's art work they had done throught the Greek lesson. at the end they had a credits run through of the comments that teachers and other students had said about their video. It was really cool, because at the end you could comment on their video, then your comment would be added to the slides.
The next post I read was called "What makes a great post", This was a really good post because it talked about the importance of making a vital and safe post. Their tips were to; Only use your first name, use sensible and appropriate language, draft your post and always have the teacher check it, never write out personal details, and always ask permission before posting someone else's photo. I thought these were all very good ideas on making a great post.
C4K-#5- The next blog was Ms. Jenny's Year 6 classs at Pt. England School. Their class blog is called "Little Voices, Little Scholars". I watched a video on the classblog on the school picnic they have every year. The School picnic gives the kids an oppurtunity to have fun with their school friends, teachers, and family. They all come to together and play games, do potterty, play on the playground, and swim in the ocean. Every kid wears a big red hat that looks like they are going on a field trip. It really looked like such a fun time to just spend the whole day having fun with everyone from school.
I looked at Angelo's blog and his first blog was a video of him describing his wonderful weekend. In his video he talked about how he rode his bike to his grandmother's house. The next blog was "Learning to Take Charge Video". It had pictures of the kids art work of them going out and doing productive things to take charge. The video would transition between a topic and then a child would speak. It showed the children on the playground, doing work in class, learning how to swim, and playing together. Each child would say they take charge and follow instructions, or use safety on the play ground, or focus in school. I thought it was really interesting that the children get the chance to swim during P.E. I would have loved that as a child, because I always loved to be in the water.
C4K-#6- The next blog I looked at was Room 14, The Explorers, in Taurango, New Zealand. I looked at a girls blog named Lucy. I watched a video that her and another girl created on "How is culture reflected through the arts?" The classroom made art work that reflected the same that the Greeks did. They also would make art work that went along with a Greek god they learned about. The girls made a video of the classroom's art work they had done throught the Greek lesson. at the end they had a credits run through of the comments that teachers and other students had said about their video. It was really cool, because at the end you could comment on their video, then your comment would be added to the slides.
The next post I read was called "What makes a great post", This was a really good post because it talked about the importance of making a vital and safe post. Their tips were to; Only use your first name, use sensible and appropriate language, draft your post and always have the teacher check it, never write out personal details, and always ask permission before posting someone else's photo. I thought these were all very good ideas on making a great post.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
PLN Progress
C4T#2
The teacher I was assigned gave me the impression that she was more of a stay at home mom now. She seemed very into blogging and looking up other teacher's blogs to get a good argument going on her post. The posts are responded to were her posts about "grading parents and giving them a report card." To some extent I think that parents should have to get a report card. I'm not really sure if the parents would really be concerned about their "grades". I know that me personally would be really embarrassed if I got a bad report on my parenting skills. Some parents really don't care about their children's schooling, unfortuantly.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Blog Post 7
Last Lecture I really enjoyed listening to Randy Pausche's Last Lecture. I didn't pay attention to the title of the video, "Last Lecture", until the end, so I was hoping that at the end we would be told her survived the cancer. Throughout this video, I laughed and even teared up at the end. Randy was such a well known man who accomplished a lot of things before the age of 50. He has work that will go on to help better students learning with advanced technology.
I looked up some more information on the programs he created and were involved in. Alice is a program that has classes set up for teachers and students to use the 3-D programming. I went and looked at the Alice blog and I watched this guy make one of a 3-D animation of a penguin for his class. It was really interesting how this works. It really does make class fun, it's a fully interactive class making animation.
The Entertainment Technology Center really seemed like a lot of fun. It's a masters program for studetns focused on Technology Entertainment. When he showed us the pictures, it seems like they make it a lot of fun. I really like how he relates with the students, such as no text books because they have already had four years of reading books. He also relates with the students by making hard school work, fun!
These programs seem like a lot of hard work but will pay off in the end. I think it's really awesome how they pretty much have a job waiting for them when they graduate with their masters degree from this school. I can imagine how nice it would be, to know that all your hard work will pay off for sure when you get done. It's kinda scary right now going into education, because there are such shortages in jobs...especially in Mobile.
Randy had the oppurtunity to meet and work with some great people, who he gave full credit to for helping him reach his goals. He was so optimistic and he was very insprining, especially when he talked about never giving up.
I looked up some more information on the programs he created and were involved in. Alice is a program that has classes set up for teachers and students to use the 3-D programming. I went and looked at the Alice blog and I watched this guy make one of a 3-D animation of a penguin for his class. It was really interesting how this works. It really does make class fun, it's a fully interactive class making animation.
The Entertainment Technology Center really seemed like a lot of fun. It's a masters program for studetns focused on Technology Entertainment. When he showed us the pictures, it seems like they make it a lot of fun. I really like how he relates with the students, such as no text books because they have already had four years of reading books. He also relates with the students by making hard school work, fun!
These programs seem like a lot of hard work but will pay off in the end. I think it's really awesome how they pretty much have a job waiting for them when they graduate with their masters degree from this school. I can imagine how nice it would be, to know that all your hard work will pay off for sure when you get done. It's kinda scary right now going into education, because there are such shortages in jobs...especially in Mobile.
Randy had the oppurtunity to meet and work with some great people, who he gave full credit to for helping him reach his goals. He was so optimistic and he was very insprining, especially when he talked about never giving up.
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