Rubrics are due today!!!
Two weeks ago, we watched a video featuring Jill Bolte Taylor. She described her left and right brain as she became aware of it during her stroke.
We continue looking into our brains and the differences between left and right side thinking with Daniel Pink. He has authored of a great book; A WHOLE NEW MIND Why Right Brainers Will Rule the World. Daniel Pink writes business books and is a motivational speaker to encourage others to choose their career paths and their futures.
Please watch the following video. Our discussion board will have more specific questions this week in response to Dan Pink, Adundance, Asia and Automation .
How does this relate to teaching elementary school?
With so much attention focused on THE TEST, it is easy to lose site of our true focus. We are preparing our young students for a successful future. Our students need to learn to become brilliant adults who invent and create and move our culture into a new generation. So what is that future we are preparing them for? Watch Did You Know 3.0
The first video is Daniel Pink sharing some of this thoughts on what our world is becoming and what we and our students need to be to be successful.
The second video is Daniel Pink discussing how this applies to education. Daniel Pink: Texas senate hearing on education. (You can fast forward to 1:51)
I strongly recommend adding the book, A WHOLE NEW MIND to your summer reading list.
The last assignment is to complete a unit plan. Below is the template and a sample. Your capstone is MANY, MANY, MANY things but it is usually based around a curricular unit. You have already brainstormed over 35 ideas (Bloom/Gardner Grid) and completed a lesson plan as well as an assessment rubric on one curricular area. Let's use all of this information to create the Unit plan. Hopefully, you have or will have additional projects to this unit plan from your other classes. Feel free to include these other projects in your unit plan. This unit plan will be an incredible jump start to your CAPSTONE.
Unit Plan due March 8th. (The last class)
Two weeks ago, we watched a video featuring Jill Bolte Taylor. She described her left and right brain as she became aware of it during her stroke.
We continue looking into our brains and the differences between left and right side thinking with Daniel Pink. He has authored of a great book; A WHOLE NEW MIND Why Right Brainers Will Rule the World. Daniel Pink writes business books and is a motivational speaker to encourage others to choose their career paths and their futures.
Please watch the following video. Our discussion board will have more specific questions this week in response to Dan Pink, Adundance, Asia and Automation .
How does this relate to teaching elementary school?
With so much attention focused on THE TEST, it is easy to lose site of our true focus. We are preparing our young students for a successful future. Our students need to learn to become brilliant adults who invent and create and move our culture into a new generation. So what is that future we are preparing them for? Watch Did You Know 3.0
The first video is Daniel Pink sharing some of this thoughts on what our world is becoming and what we and our students need to be to be successful.
The second video is Daniel Pink discussing how this applies to education. Daniel Pink: Texas senate hearing on education. (You can fast forward to 1:51)
I strongly recommend adding the book, A WHOLE NEW MIND to your summer reading list.
The last assignment is to complete a unit plan. Below is the template and a sample. Your capstone is MANY, MANY, MANY things but it is usually based around a curricular unit. You have already brainstormed over 35 ideas (Bloom/Gardner Grid) and completed a lesson plan as well as an assessment rubric on one curricular area. Let's use all of this information to create the Unit plan. Hopefully, you have or will have additional projects to this unit plan from your other classes. Feel free to include these other projects in your unit plan. This unit plan will be an incredible jump start to your CAPSTONE.
Unit Plan due March 8th. (The last class)
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