1.Describe the four decision-making and thought-processing phases of instruction and the types of decisions you must make during each. (p. 31)
2. What are five basic guidelines that teachers should follow to ensure safety and legality? (p. 37-38)
3. Looking at the different teaching styles, why do you think the author states that teachers should embrace an eclectic teaching style (p. 23-40)?
4. The list of non-instructional responsibilities (p. 47) is very representative of what is expected of a typical teacher. Choose two of the 13 responsibilities and explain why you feel these are important for a school teacher. Choose one that you feel is not necessarily something that should be required of a teacher.
5. Read the list on page 48 carefully. These safety procedures and guidelines are an unwritten rule in schools. If you fail to do these things, you may be subject to disciplinary action. Which were surprising to you? Why? Which do you feel are the most important to follow? Why?
6. Identify 10 instructional competencies (p. 59-61) that you feel are vital to a good educator. Give a brief rational for each of your choices.
7. What are three tools for instruction (p. 66-77) that you may choose to use in your classroom. Explain why you feel these would be good choices for you.
1. Four decision-making and thought-processing phases
ReplyDelete1. The planning or pre-active phase.
-The planning or pre-active phase consists of all those intellectual functions and decisions you make prior to actual instruction. This includes decisions about content selection, goals and objectives, homework assignments, what students already know and can do, appropriate learning activities and questions to be asked.
2. The teaching or interactive phase
-The interactive phase includes all the decisions made during the teaching act. This includes the maintaining of student focus, questions asked by the teacher, feedback given to the students, and ongoing adjustments to the lesson plan.
3. The analyzing and evaluating or reflective phase.
-The analyzing and evaluating phase is the time you take to reflect upon, analyze, and judge the decisions and behaviors that occurred during interactive phase. During reflection you make decisions about student learning, student marks and grades, and feedback.
4. The application or projective phase.
-The application or projective phase consists of abstracting from your reflection and projecting your analysis into teaching behaviors.
#2.
1. Right against Discrimination. In all aspects of school, students must be treated the same.
2. The right of students to possess and to use cellular phones, pagers, and other mobile devices while at school varies from state to state. Need to know your state laws.
3. Teachers are usually protected by their school districts against personal injury litigation.Not all schools recieve federal funding.
4. Teachers need to investigate carefully the extent of their tort liability coverage in districts where they work.
5. Need to inquire from your insurance agents whether i have adequate automobile insurance liability coverage to transport students in my personal vehicle.
#3. A teacher must be eclectic to be more affective with diverse groups of students but with a strong emphasis toward cognitive-experimentalism-constructivism.It is very important to be diverse.
#4. I believe that knowledge about activities of interest to the students is very important. If you know what a student or group of students particularly like then you can organize, design, or adjust your lesson plan or activities to meet those interests. If the student can relate to the lesson plan they are more willing to understand and be involved.
Being acquainted with members of the faculty and the support staff is also very important. In a school you should be working as a team with your co-workers, not as an individual. Also you will need help from time to time from the other faculty staff. Building that friendship and trust could go a long way in meeting your needs and goals.
I believe that the least important, not saying it is not important, but least important is the professional meetings responsibilities. Local, regional, state and national organizations are not going to be on the highest of my priorities when I am trying to design a lesson plan on how to dissect a frog.
#5.
ReplyDeleteThe most surprising guideline was #2. It almost seems to me that pretty much unless if the student is dying, going to lose a limb, or is going to bleed to death then you shouldn’t help them with first aid assistance. First of all, all teachers should be first aid certified. Second all the teachers should have adequate training on first aid help especially if you are in a science lab area.
I think the ones that are most important have to do with electricity. Many teachers aren’t and shouldn’t be trained on how to properly take care of an electrical situation. This is a job for an electrician and these guidelines should be followed closely.
#6. 1. The teacher is knowledgeable about the subject matter. This one is pretty self-explanatory. If you do not know much about the subject matter you should not be in that classroom and longer then to maybe sub.
2. The teacher understands the processes of learning. Many people are very smart at certain topics but if you cannot teach that information to others, you are worthless to the students.
3. The teacher is open to change, willing to take risks, and willing to be held accountable. I think being a teacher you always need to be able to adjust on the fly cause all students are different. You should take risks if you know it is going to help the student, but also know the consequences of those risks.
4. The teacher is nondiscriminatory toward others. The teacher should be open to all students know matter race, color, age, etc.
5. The teacher organizes the classroom and plans lessons carefully. I think organization is huge when dealing with students especially for disciplinary reasons. If things are organized and the students know it, they are less likely to test your boundaries or limits.
6. The teacher is a capable communicator. The teacher must be able to communicate to not just the students, but also other teachers, and parents. Communication is huge personally and if you cannot communicate it is hard to get information across.
7. The teacher demonstrates concern for the safety and health of the students. If the students are and feel safe they are more willing to listen to the teacher, pay attention, and respect them.
8. The teacher demonstrates optimism for the learning of every student. If the teacher is negative, the students will be negative. Motivation goes alone ways.
9. The teacher demonstrates confidence in each student’s ability to learn. If you are not confident in your students to learn and grow then you shouldn’t be a teacher. If you are not confident in the student how do you expect them to be confident in themselves?
10. The teacher exhibits a wide range of interests. The more the teacher is interested in, the wider range of activities they can pull into their lesson plans .This in turn will hit a wider range of interests with their students.
#7. The internet. I would use the internet as a tool because students today are sadly more interent savy then most adults. The interent may keep in interest in something that they otherwise might not have been interested in.
I would also use field trips as an instruction tool. Field trips allow for more of a hands-on approach to learning.
The third tool i might use is the television, videos, and DVD's. I think students will get much more out of the instruction or topic if they use tools that they are more comfortable with or are able to use more indepth. Being comfortable with the tool might help the student get more out of the instruction.