Student Teaching

     OH MY GOSH! The past few weeks have been nothing but pure joy and fun. I had fun teaching the little kids at our neighbor school (Koblerville Elementary School). The students there has welcomed me and my partner with nothing but open arms. We had so much fun giving each other company. I must admit that I have grown a little attached to those little ones over there. When I graduate I might miss them. LOL. Anyways, I think I have seen a small growth in me. Before, I wouldn't have mingled with the students. I think the grade for me really matters. Because when I was in another class observing all I did was sit down and do nothing. I guess being in a class where the students are more energized than I am, is a class I would love to teach in the future.
     The technique I applied in the kindergarten class was I rewarded the students for their effort. For two days, we did a read aloud there. We had a few tricks up our sleeves. We rewarded them for trying to answer the question. We gave them Jello sticks and stickers. They were really in love with it. It was awesome to see those kids really into the activity and felt good about themselves when they received the prize.  Honestly, I have to say that Ms .Kapileo is a great teacher. All her techniques she used is great. She uses modern day technology to help her students learn. She also makes her kids use the computer to take tests. They are more advanced than I was when I was in elementary. I think her techniques are very good and I think I'll be using them someday when I'm a teacher in the future.

CITW Strategies 2

      First strategy is Cues, Questions and Organizers. I think this strategy is important because it helps students access their prior knowledge and use it to help them learn new things. I think the purpose of asking students cues and questions give you a chance to see what the students really learned. The goal of this strategy is to help students achieve the learning objectives. So, in order to achieve this goal ask questions that the students should know about the topic.
     Second strategy is Non-linguistic Representation. This strategy is important because it helps students use imagery. Student will be able to use visual image processing. which helps them construct meaning of relevant content and skills and have a better capacity to recall it later. Using this strategy, helps students enhance their achievement. Non-linguistic representation has many ways of being used. There are:
• Use graphic organizers.
• Make physical models or manipulatives.
• Generate mental pictures.
• Create pictures, illustrations, and pictographs.
• Engage in kinesthetic activities.
Using these practices in your classroom, can help students build memory and learn how to use their visual imagery skills.
     The last strategy is Cooperative Learning. This strategy is important because it provides opportunities for students to interact in ways that enhance and deepen their learning. This strategy encourages communications and mutual reasoning. I think the best way to help students in cooperative learning is to put them in groups. i think that'll help students learn more. Use these 3 practices and cooperative learning will take place.

• Include elements of both positive interdependence and individual
accountability.
• Keep group size small.
• Use cooperative learning consistently and systematically.
Cooperative learning helps students retain what they learn. Cooperative learning also increases motivation for learning because students establish a sense of obligation to one another and a strong kinship with their peers that leads to greater buy-in, motivation, and increased achievement.

CITW Strategies

     The CITW presentation was fun so many fun activities. One strategy was the similarities and differences part, it was the activity we had to remember the 4 topics. It was analogies, comparing, classifying and metaphor. All the activities for all 4 of those topics was super fun, I had a great time. I think the "must know" for similarities are the 4 topics and how to create them. Another strategy we had was setting objectives. We had to write objectives for a video we saw. I think the important thing we need to know about this chapter is that setting objectives is like a guide for learning, it tells which direction to go and what to follow. Plus, most teachers set objectives to help keep that class moving smoothly and for students to accomplish a certain goal to what they have learned or to let the students know what they will be learning. Our last strategy was reinforcement effort and providing recognition. Providing recognition is the process of acknowledging students’ attainment of specific goals. When teachers give feedback they are letting the students know that they are listening and are here to help. When teachers use this technique it gives students a sense of achievement and makes them feel good that they've done something right. Which could lead to student achievement and students will more likely would want to be doing their work. I think for this technique, a teacher I had in first grade use to give us a spelling contest every week. We had vocabulary words on the board and we had to study them. So, when the competition came he would give us a jello every time we spelled a word right. He gave to all of us and we were able to get more than one. It was fun and it made me study the words more because I wanted more jello. So, I think my 1st grade teacher used this technique back then

10 ways to use twitter in education

Top 10 ways to use twiiter in education

1. With twitter you could hold afer-class discussions. Learning doesn't have to stop when class has ended with twitter you can start a private chat with everyone in class and chat studying together. It could help all students keep in touch.
2. You could use twitter for classroom announcements. With all your classmates, friends, school mates and teachers follwoing you on twitter it is easier to let all of them know what is going on. With the way twitter is expanding and the speed of how people tweet, classrooma announcements can be easily distributed to everyone in class.
3. We could also pass on information about events through twitter. Its fast and easy to let everyone know fast.
4. You coud also use twitter for research. Using the hashtag(#) mark it is very easy to find tweets that are relevant to the information you are trying to find.
5. Ask questions. With twitter it is very easy to ask questions there. After you have post a question, you could immediately get a response from a friend, teacher mentor or just a person in the twitter universe who has the same problem as you and has went throught the same thing.
6. Get feedback from students. I think teachers who use twitter are really cool and its a fast way for the teachers to stay in touch with them, whenever they are in need of some assistance.
7. Get instant advice and guidance. You know how there are people who post up their problems and how they dealt with it, well twitter is a great and fast way to find the advices that could help them to solve the problem.
8. Share lesson plans
9. Encourage students to make professional connections
10. Share what you're reading. Share something that you enjoyed reading and maybe someone will also find it equally thrilling as you did. Let the twitter universe grasp the knowledge you found and share with the world.

I am also a current user of twitter and I am following 3 people who are student teachers and use technology in class. They are Student Teacher(@Student Teach), Student Teacher Probs(@Studentteacherz) and technologyinclass(atechnologyincla). I followed these 3 people because to me they caught my attention out of the whole twitter universe. I found the student teachers by using the hashtag(#) @studentteachers. I read their bio and i really liked them. For technologyinclass, thats what I hashtagged and it was the only one there so i followed him.

Observing Bloom's Taxonomy

     On January 10th, our class went to Koblerville Elementary School to observe a class. It was a pretty fun time because the kids were very open about sharing every single feeling or curiosity to the teacher. It made me laugh a lot. When I was observing the elementary they were doing a writing excersise. They had to tracing the outline of sentences and then they had to write it reapeatedly. They also had to draw what the word says, like for example if they word says "purple butterfly", they had to draw it. I think the learnig domain they covered was the Cognitive learning doamin. They were comprehending the sentences and learning how to read and write. I think Ms. Torres's objective was for the students to be able to write in complete sentences and are able to match pictures to drawings.

Bloom's Taxonomy

     The Bloom's taxonomy, what do we really know of this? Well for one thing we know is that Benjamin Bloom found out about this and he identified 3 learning domains, the cognitive, affective and pyschomotor Domains.

     The first domain he identifiedwas the cognitive learning domain in 1956. This domain includes everything you know in your head, like what you know or what you want to know. Cognitive domain has six categories.

• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis is
• Keywords
• Synthesis
• Evaluation

     The second domain he identified was the Affective learning domain in 1973. This domains talks about how we handle things. The feeling we have towards everything around us and how it affects us. This domains includes 5 categories.

• Receiving Phenomena
• Responding to Phenomena
• Valuing
• Organization
• Internalizing values

  The last domain he identified was the psychomotor learning domain in 1972. It's more of a hands on learning domain. You build up your skills and learn by doing the work physically instead of watching and taking notes, well something sort of like that. There are 7 categories that fall under this domain,

• Perception
• Set
• Guided Response
• Mechanism
• Complex of Overt Response
• Adaptation
• Origination

Recall an activity in class..
     Well, I think the class I would have to say is Mr. Adsit from chemistry because he gives our class a lot of work. He gives us a homework to do at home, like taking down notes or worksheets and then he gives us a warm up every morning that relates to what we did last night. I think it is a cognitive learning domain technique because he is testing what we should know and he really tries to make us link it together with something we already know to help us remember it better.
     Also, another lesson in chemistry class are the lab works he give us. Its more of a hands on thing and its really fun. I think that falls under the pyschomotor learning domain, because we really get to grasp the idea of the lesson physically instead of just sitting there and listening to him talk all day.