Reflection

Chapter 2

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Question:

 Imagine you are going to teach a unit about Christopher Columbus to the grade level of your choice. What strategies immediately come to mind as good possibilities for teaching this unit? What relationship can you discern between how you might want to teach this unit and your own learning or cognitive style? Describe how you think your own personal style might affect your teaching style. What lessons can you draw from this realization when you teach your diverse students?

Answer: 

Strategies that came to mind to teach this prompt were mainly focused on allowing the children to have a hands-on experience. I think that dividing into groups and assigning them specific parts to research would be a fun way for the students to learn and interact with each other. Each group could have a list of jobs, allowing the children within the group to delegate responsibilities. Assigning them to find facts, videos, create a PowerPoint or poster, and present their findings to the class, are creative ways for the students to learn the needed material. I am personally a hands on learner. I would include some sort quiz or game after the students have finished presenting to make sure that all of the children have understood the material in the way that they learn best. Example being one of the children could write down notes and facts that the group needs, another could put together a presentation, one child could read the material, while the other children in class listen and watch the presentation. Include different ways to approach the subject so that they feel comfortable and able to understand the material.

KidsKnowIt

KidsKnowIt

Edutopia

Edutopia

Fun Brain!

FunBrain

Presentations

Presentation Four

Presentation Three

Presentation Two

Presentation One

Philosophy

“For any subject taught …, we might ask is it worth an adult's knowing, and weather having known it as a child makes a person a better adult."

Jerome Bruner, 1960

As a teacher, I want my students to learn and appreciate art and its history. It is my belief that art is a subject worth knowing. I want my students to come away from class with a better understanding of the many forms art can encompass, whether it be drawing, painting, found objects, printmaking, as well as the many new, non-conventional ways of art making. 

As a teacher, I want to challenge my students to become independent, objective thinkers. I want them to be able to look at a piece of artwork and form their own opinions and critical analysis’ of the piece.

I wanted to become an art teacher so I could influence young students in a positive way, to appreciate art. As I agree with Bruner’s quote, I want to give students an art education that I was not fortunate enough to receive until late highschool, and college. I hope that I can teach students something they will keep with them for a lifetime.

Reflection

Question: What role do you think distance education will play in education as the Information Age unfolds and technologies improve? What advantages and disadvantages for teachers and students do you foresee?

Answer: I think that distance learning will become the favorable choice. Not only is distance learning cheaper, but it is usually easier for the student to adjust their schedules around their classwork. More technology will make it easier to take online classes and for schools to offer better options to the students who take them. Advantages are that students can learn on their own time, and with out the materials cost, its cheaper online than in class. Disadvantages would be the lack of communication, student to student, and student to teacher.