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Category Archives: Standard 4 – Pedagogy, for the Curriculum and Instruction
Conceptual Daily Unit Plan (2 weeks)
10th grade Honors unit: Feed and 1984 are the primary text for my tenth grade students, which they will work through for a six week unit. Supplemental texts : The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. … Continue reading
Direct Instruction
This week’s module started with my nose scrunched in dislike and ended with enjoyment. Chapter 4 from our D& D Module of Instruction text is on Direct Instruction. To me, talking about this type of teaching method is like using … Continue reading
Moral Standards
Module 8’s readings were on morals in the classroom. The topic that surrounds our readings was whether or not morals can be “taught” or are they just “caught”. Russell Kirk wrote a piece entitled “Can Morals be Taught” in which … Continue reading
Learner-Centered Instructional Model
Module 7 took a turn this week. We ventured into a territory that has controversy surrounding it. In our Models of Teaching text chapter 10 discusses “Role Playing”. This idea is a learner-centered instructional model, which focuses not so much … Continue reading
Cooperative Learning
Module 6 consisted of reading on collaboration/cooperative learning. Chapter nine in Models of Teaching and John Dewey’s essay “My Pedagogic Creed” were our readings this week. I found the cooperative learning strategy to be a wonderful way to include as … Continue reading
Advance Organizer as Instructional Strategy
The two reading for this week’s module were a chapter from our D&D text (Models of Teaching) and David P. Ausubel’s The Nature and Use of Organizers. The concept that these readings was based on was the use of Advance … Continue reading
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
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
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
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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