We will be meeting on Tuesday, March 20th at 5pm. This week we will be watching and discussing the links together.
Ian Jukes - Understanding the Digital Generation
Daniel Pink
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. 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.
Capstone
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. Your plan should cover about three weeks. 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. I would like to share my Capstone with you!!
I share my capstone, not because I believe it is a great example of what a capstone should be, but because I want you to be aware of all that goes into the final product.
The capstone is really two pieces.
The first part of the capstone is what I like to prepare my students for. The first part of the capstone includes a growth study, vitea, list of classes and research action. These are assignments that will be explained and completed in the last class of the program.
The second part of the capstone is the real "meat" of the project. You 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 next week on As Soon as Possible (April 3rd).
Next week (March 27th), please read the blog for assignments. We will not be meeting in class. Enjoy your Spring Break!!
The last day of class is April 3rd. Please read the blog the last week as well. I will be on campus to assist anyone with their unit plan. If you have already completed and turned in your unit plan, you will not be required to meet. We will have assignments on the blog the last week of class.
Ian Jukes - Understanding the Digital Generation
Daniel Pink
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. 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.
Capstone
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. Your plan should cover about three weeks. 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. I would like to share my Capstone with you!!
I share my capstone, not because I believe it is a great example of what a capstone should be, but because I want you to be aware of all that goes into the final product.
The capstone is really two pieces.
The first part of the capstone is what I like to prepare my students for. The first part of the capstone includes a growth study, vitea, list of classes and research action. These are assignments that will be explained and completed in the last class of the program.
The second part of the capstone is the real "meat" of the project. You 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 next week on As Soon as Possible (April 3rd).
Next week (March 27th), please read the blog for assignments. We will not be meeting in class. Enjoy your Spring Break!!
The last day of class is April 3rd. Please read the blog the last week as well. I will be on campus to assist anyone with their unit plan. If you have already completed and turned in your unit plan, you will not be required to meet. We will have assignments on the blog the last week of class.
| blank_mi_unit_plan_template.doc |
| sample_unit_plan_bridge_to_terabithia.doc |
| unit_plan_chip_mayer_the_bfg_literature_unit.doc |
| sample_unit_plan_multiplication.doc |
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