There are two "lectures" for this week with only one discussion board on our facebook page. The last assignment, a unit plan, is due THURSD
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 what will been expected of our students in order to succeed.
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
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.
Reaching consensus
Tim Bedley is an incredible teacher in Lake Elsinore. He has some great teaching strategies and incredible videos and information. Once of his teaching strategies is called “Reaching Consensus”. We will read an article and look at some videos from his classroom.
Read Article http://www.timbedley.com/articles/article01.htm
Please be sure to watch a few videos concerning consensus as well as read the link at the bottom of the article named See a framework for the teaching strategy "reaching consensus."
If you have not already seen this video (third video down on the page, please watch.
http://www.timbedley.com/video/vid_teach2.htm
Reaching Consensus on a Reading Assignment(5:08)
In this powerful video, you will see a small group of 5th graders reaching consensus on some comprehension questions. Notice how they dig through the text to support their answers. They were never instructed to do this, but because of the learning activity "reaching consensus," they automatically skimmed the passage on their own. Two of these students are English language learners.
The last half of the video is an interview with the students on the benefits of this teaching method. You'll love hearing these 5th graders insights.
Our discussion board for this week is to add comments on what you learned from Tim Bedley about Reaching Consensus and or Daniel Pink and his views how we are preparing our students for the future.
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.
The unit plan is due next week on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4.
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 what will been expected of our students in order to succeed.
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
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.
Reaching consensus
Tim Bedley is an incredible teacher in Lake Elsinore. He has some great teaching strategies and incredible videos and information. Once of his teaching strategies is called “Reaching Consensus”. We will read an article and look at some videos from his classroom.
Read Article http://www.timbedley.com/articles/article01.htm
Please be sure to watch a few videos concerning consensus as well as read the link at the bottom of the article named See a framework for the teaching strategy "reaching consensus."
If you have not already seen this video (third video down on the page, please watch.
http://www.timbedley.com/video/vid_teach2.htm
Reaching Consensus on a Reading Assignment(5:08)
In this powerful video, you will see a small group of 5th graders reaching consensus on some comprehension questions. Notice how they dig through the text to support their answers. They were never instructed to do this, but because of the learning activity "reaching consensus," they automatically skimmed the passage on their own. Two of these students are English language learners.
The last half of the video is an interview with the students on the benefits of this teaching method. You'll love hearing these 5th graders insights.
Our discussion board for this week is to add comments on what you learned from Tim Bedley about Reaching Consensus and or Daniel Pink and his views how we are preparing our students for the future.
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.
The unit plan is due next week on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4.
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