Congratulations!  You should have completed all of the assignments for this class.   I will NOT be in class on Tuesday evening and your attendance is NOT required.  I am available to anyone who may need  help finishing up assignments. If you do need me, just let me know and we can chat on the phone, in Skype or we can meet at APU.

This week is simple!

Teacher Training Videos
Please take a look at this site.  I think it a great find.  Spend some time exploring.  We will not have a discussion for this topic but I think you should bookmark it for future reference.

You all did a great job!!  I was thrilled to get to know you!!  Please email me anytime during your program and even after if needed!!! Let me know when you complete the program so I can send you best wishes.

This week's videos...

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

Imagine a classroom where students listen to the lecture at home and come to school to practice their homework at school with the teacher.  The teacher helping students to put into practice what they have heard in the lecture with the teacher nearby to guide and encourage mastery.  The FLIPPED classroom.

This Tuesday, we will meet to ....
1.  discuss the  videos
2.  review again what to expect for a CAPSTONE
3.  answer questions concerning your unit plan.

The last assignment is to complete a unit plan. 
The unit plan is due this week as soon as possible. Original due date was Oct. 23.

Next week is our last week of class.  Since we have completed all of our assignments this week, we will only need to check on the blog for one last video.

CLASS SCHEDULE CHANGE!!!
Class this week will be online only.  We will not be meeting on campus. 

We will be looking into research concerning our left and right brains.  We will begin by watching a video about a woman who had the opportunity to study the brain from the inside out.  Watch Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight 


Ian Jukes - Understanding The Digital Generation



I would like to briefly share another theory of learning.
Daniel Pink 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. We as educators are interested in his view of the future and what will be expected of our students in order to succeed.
Please watch the following video.   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

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.



Assignment Due(10/23): Multiple Intelligence Unit Plan
Your unit plan needs to a complete plan that includes lesson plans, worksheets, powerpoints, vodcasts, etc.  EVERYTHING a teacher would  need to complete the unit from your plan.


The last assignment is to complete a unit plan.  Below is the template and a sample.  The unit plan is due Oct 23rd.

Please watch this video before class.
Multiple Intelligences Special Guest .. Temple Grandin
Our special guest to share spatial intelligence is Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin gives a fanastic speech. She is a very successful woman who has autism.  Her speech is not only important to hear for your children with autism but she is an amazing visual learner. Her speech helps us understand how the mind of a visual thinker works.
(I strongly recommend the movie out on DVD. It was an HBO movie.) I believe EVERY mother and EVERY teacher should see this movie!! There will be an EXTRA CREDIT for the movie if you choose to rent the movie and watch it!!  The extra credit will be available throughout the class so just email what you thought of the movie when you have seen it.

Field Trip Discussion

Topics for this week's class
Reaching Consensus
Rubric Lesson
Assignment Due(10/16): Rubric


Due Oct. 16 - Rubric
We will create a rubric for one of the assignments in your Bloom/Gardner Grid.  It may a rubric for the lesson plan you just completed.  It may be a rubric for any other assignment in your Grid.  You may use any rubric generator to create your rubric, although I suggest Rubistar
Your rubric will be posted on your website/blog as well as emailing it to me.  Please label it "RubricYourNameTopicTitle". 
Your rubric will be graded using Aunt Olive's Rubric on Rubric


Upcoming Assignments
Due Oct 23 Unit Plan... more information to follow