Monthly Archives: January 2010

Creating Inquisitive and Thoughtful Future Citizens

Continuing my journey through the Models of Teaching text, this week’s module was on Concept Attainment. The purpose of this model of instruction is to help students create a strong foundation to which they will become better learners while they … Continue reading

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Inductive Models of Instruction

Module three was all about getting students to think outside of the box. The first reading I delved into was the selected quotes from “When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason’s Philosophy for Today (2004).” This … Continue reading

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Application of Marzano’s Nine Categories

For our reading in Module 2 we were presented with a text entitled,  “Classroom instruction that Works” by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock. This text supplies the reader with the results of research done by researchers at … Continue reading

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Philosophies of Curriculum and Instruction

The readings for Module 1 for the SPU course entitled “Survey of Instructional Strategies” were Alfred North Whitehead’s “Aims of Education”, and chapter two–“Philosophies of Curriculum and Instruction”– from our “Models of Teaching” class text. The main point in the … Continue reading

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Hello World!

Hello everyone. This is my blog for the Masters of Arts in Teaching program at Seattle Pacific University. Go to my ‘About Me’ tab to learn more about my background, interests, and future plans.

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