Personality

INTJ-The Scientist

I was not aware that there were so many different personality traits out there. What an eye-opener, it just goes to show how we need to be aware of the differences in our students and how we may need to accommodate and supplement our teaching strategies.
This is just one of the many things to come that we as teachers will need to learn to utilize. It should also help us to develop an environment in the classroom that will be successful.

Excel

Excel spreadsheets are very useful tools as we have seen in our recently completed Gradebook and Lesson Plan projects. In the book it told us how spreadsheets have been used to model phenomena through four ways: computational reasoning tools for analyzing, comprehension in mathematics, visualization, and simulation. How cool is that?
The three primary functions of spreadsheets are storing, calculating, and presenting information. We use spreadsheets to keep track of information, make things simple and easy, and present that information in a more compelling manor.
Spreadsheets are labor saving and free us from having to calculate large amounts of data by hand. I would definitely find ways to use this tool within my classroom.

Week 3 Blog Posting

Inspiration Video: Provides a framework for thinking through visual learning. Should help students to gather information, analyze it and use it in their writing. Students would be able to use graphic organizers to help in their planning and development of their projects. Teachers would be able to use Inspiration to help in their planning and development of their curiculums.

Collaborative writing activities could be used to engage the class in working together and you would have more sources of ideas,varied points of views, and an important one- peer and self assessment. As we saw in Chapter 4, even when instructors provide assassment of a students work it is in the form of clarity and accuracy and as recent research has shown student-to student feedback may be more effective.

In responce to the question , How well did I know a topic, and did I know it better after. Yes I did need to research a topic before I was able to talk about it. I certainly did not know more in the beginnig as I did after the reasearch and teaching of the topic.