Response and Reaction Paper
Briefly summarize your paper and then put a link to your paper.
Briefly summarize your paper and then put a link to your paper.
Professional Readings
To help us to understand what is going on in the educational field better, we were asked to read article weekly. Below you will see that for each article we wrote a brief summary and then applied the article to our future classroom incorporating the new strategies.
Topic: Mastery Learning
Guskey, T. (2010). Lessons of Mastery Learning. Association for Supervision and Curriculum, Oct. 2010. 53-57.
Summary: Mastery learning was introduced by Benjamin Bloom and is the concept of teaching students new information and tracking their progress at the same time in order to promote optimum learning at all times. In order to track their learning there were different techniques introduced: formative and corrective learning. Both of these were also crucial to this theory because it helps educators fix problems when students do not understand the material and it is reflected by their various assessments.
Classroom Recommendation: In my future English class, I hope to give some sort of quiz or paper every two weeks in order to keep the students on track and see how they are progressing. In particularly difficult lessons these formative procedures will be more important than others. I know some weeks this may be unrealistic, but I think it would help a great deal. Also, I would love to be able to incorporate some sort of vocabulary quiz or assignment each week in order to always keep the students’ diction increasing.
Topic: Writing in Math
Brandenburg, Luka. (2002). Advanced Math? Write! Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Nov. 2002, 67-68.
Summary: This article is awesome for future math students to read! As painful as some of this teacher’s strategies sound from a student’s perspective, I think they would work flawlessly. The author is arguing for more writing in math. The way she accomplished this was by making her math students write about the processes they were going through. The author hopes that this will help the students understand more what they are doing in math and in turn, help them to learn more efficiently. She does allude to the fact that this may be difficult for students to get involved in, so teachers should start small and set guidelines.
Classroom Recommendation: Although my subject is clear about the fact that students will need to write, I still think I could use some of these strategies in my classroom. The author’s advice about starting small is an important one because there will definitely be some students in my class who will not enjoy writing for various reasons. By doing so, I will have them keep an informal journal every week which I would collect and grade for incentive to do a thorough job. This will hopefully get the students to feel comfortable with their writing abilities before having to complete any papers and they will get a feel for what I expect out of their writing. I also think it is critical for my future students to have specific guidelines on their writing so they always know what their writing should include and how they can improve for next time.
To help us to understand what is going on in the educational field better, we were asked to read article weekly. Below you will see that for each article we wrote a brief summary and then applied the article to our future classroom incorporating the new strategies.
Topic: Mastery Learning
Guskey, T. (2010). Lessons of Mastery Learning. Association for Supervision and Curriculum, Oct. 2010. 53-57.
Summary: Mastery learning was introduced by Benjamin Bloom and is the concept of teaching students new information and tracking their progress at the same time in order to promote optimum learning at all times. In order to track their learning there were different techniques introduced: formative and corrective learning. Both of these were also crucial to this theory because it helps educators fix problems when students do not understand the material and it is reflected by their various assessments.
Classroom Recommendation: In my future English class, I hope to give some sort of quiz or paper every two weeks in order to keep the students on track and see how they are progressing. In particularly difficult lessons these formative procedures will be more important than others. I know some weeks this may be unrealistic, but I think it would help a great deal. Also, I would love to be able to incorporate some sort of vocabulary quiz or assignment each week in order to always keep the students’ diction increasing.
Topic: Writing in Math
Brandenburg, Luka. (2002). Advanced Math? Write! Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Nov. 2002, 67-68.
Summary: This article is awesome for future math students to read! As painful as some of this teacher’s strategies sound from a student’s perspective, I think they would work flawlessly. The author is arguing for more writing in math. The way she accomplished this was by making her math students write about the processes they were going through. The author hopes that this will help the students understand more what they are doing in math and in turn, help them to learn more efficiently. She does allude to the fact that this may be difficult for students to get involved in, so teachers should start small and set guidelines.
Classroom Recommendation: Although my subject is clear about the fact that students will need to write, I still think I could use some of these strategies in my classroom. The author’s advice about starting small is an important one because there will definitely be some students in my class who will not enjoy writing for various reasons. By doing so, I will have them keep an informal journal every week which I would collect and grade for incentive to do a thorough job. This will hopefully get the students to feel comfortable with their writing abilities before having to complete any papers and they will get a feel for what I expect out of their writing. I also think it is critical for my future students to have specific guidelines on their writing so they always know what their writing should include and how they can improve for next time.