Teachers Teach as They are Taught!

When reading The Practice Implications of Constructivism by Wesley A. Hoover, I was particularly struck by this passage, "It is also useful to remember the educator's maxim, Teachers teach as they are taught, not as they are told to teach. Thus, trainers in constructivist professional development sessions model learning activities that teachers can apply in their own classrooms. It is not enough for trainers to describe new ways of teaching and expect teachers to translate from talk to action; it is more effective to engage teachers in activities that will lead to new actions in classrooms." This is how our Methods of Instruction classroom is set up. We are constantly doing things in new and different ways, individually and in groups. Each method we learn we have to explore in all the different ways that our students will learn from us...it really is exciting!

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It's All Coming Together...My Reflections Thus Far

WE ARE ABOUT FIVE WEEKS INTO OUR METHODS CLASS AND I AM SO EXCITED WITH MY PROGRESS. WHEN I TOOK MY FIRST CLASS WITH DR. SMIRNOVA, CURRICULUM PLANNING, I WAS CONSTANTLY PANICKED. NOT ONLY WAS IT MY FIRST EDUCATION CLASS BUT MY FIRST CLASS HEAVY IN TECHNOLOGY. NOW, IN MY THIRD CLASS WITH DR. SMIRNOVA, I FEEL SLIGHTLY MORE RELAXED. I AM DEFINITELY MORE COMFORTABLE ON THE COMPUTER AND EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE LEARNED IN PREVIOUS CLASSES IS NOW COMING TOGETHER. AS MY FRIEND SALLY SAYS IN HER BLOG, MY EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE OF EDUCATION "THIS PAST MONTH HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST IN DEPTH LEARNING EXPERIENCES THUS FAR IN MY EDUCATION COURSES." (http://sally8971.blogspot.com/) WE HAVE REVIEWED MODELS, STRATEGIES AND METHODS TO WHERE WE HAVE REACHED AUTOMATICITY AND ARE NOW DELVING IN DEEPER TO THE DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES STARTING WITH DIRECT INSTRUCTION. DIRECT INSTRUCTION USES TEACHER EXPLANATION, DEMONSTRATION AND MODELING. IT WAS EXTREMELY HELPFUL WHEN OUR CLASS WAS BROKEN INTO GROUPS, EACH REQUIRED TO TEACH A LESSON ON A DIFFERENT ELEMENT OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION. WORKING WITH MY PARTNERS JESSICA AND DAWN WAS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN ITSELF ON COLLABORATION, SOMETHING I HOPE TO DO WITH MY PEERS WHEN I BECOME A TEACHER. AS VYGOTSKY SAID "TEACHERS SHOULD BE ONE STEP AHEAD OF STUDENT'S LEARNING" THIS IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR A TEACHER TO PLAN. WE ARE LEARNING THE PROPER WAY TO WRITE LESSON PLANS NOW. THIS WEEK WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A LESSON PLAN TO EVALUATE. IT IS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE THAN JUST WRITING YOUR OWN. YOU REALLY HAVE TO LOOK HARD AND KNOW WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR! IT IS STILL A BIT CONFUSING BUT I AM HOPING THAT BY THE NEXT "REFLECTION BLOG" I WILL BE SAYING HOW WELL I GET IT.