Week 7

Read Aloud

This week I read I'm the Best by Lucy Cousins. This was a book that could be used to explain self esteem to younger kids. The grades I would teach it to would be kindergarten to first grade. There also was rhyming in the book. The book demonstrates how everyone is good at something and how you should treat others kindly.

Learning Experience

This week we watched a video on a kid who had a disorder. In school he was quiet and teachers hardly noticed him. He ended up dying. In classrooms teachers should recognize students who may need extra help learning and go out of their way to modify and help these students. It should never come to the result of death because of neglect of a student who needs extra help.

Current Event

 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/11/26/13cooperate.h32.html?tkn=XUPFe1tGY1QYBSn4BoyhqRGyTXTGztXxmUCI&cmp=clp-edweek

This article is about a student teacher and how she learned all of her techniques for helping kids learn. She found that being a co-teacher is a helpful method. The student teacher learned what not to do from the actual teacher. She learned that you have to make learning fun in order for kids to actually y attention and want to learn.

Quote of the week

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply, willing is not enough, we must do." Goethe. This quote means to me that just having knowledge of information makes no difference unless it is applied to learning and teaching. Knowing something is not enough, but finding out for yourself and applying the information is.

Observations

This week we did an interesting activity. The class was split into two groups and every person had a word taped to their head. Some words were words such as “praise me”, but some were “ignore me”. This activity helped us learn how students may feel ignored neglected or put down. Other students maybe praised too often. I observed in my classroom many teachers who both praise certain students very often as well as ignore others. Teachers should act equally among their students.

 

Reflections 

This week I enjoyed the activity I mentioned above. This activity helped me to make sure that in the future I focus on each individual and treat everyone the same.