This is my first time taking class online and it was a little rough and confusing. It took time for me to get the ICARE routine down. I was clueless how the homework log worked. By asking questions to my peers and double reading the material definitely helped by the second session. Overall, I am very happy with this semester. I am not at all tech-savvy and these courses increased my growth mindset. I learned best from videos and Dr. Redmond delivered ample resources. Learning new resources from TED talks, youtube videos, and creating websites helped me improve as a 21st century teacher. I am looking forward to be more innovative and becoming more tech-savvy in the Spring semester.
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Flipped Classroom: In my opinion, I think flipped teaching would be more beneficial to students. Students can access content of video or audio at anytime. In a video I watched about a school in Detroit Mi., that model flipped classroom, one student takes a 30 min bus ride home. During his ride, he watches the videos on his smart phone. When he gets home, he had already completed half of his homework. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_p63W_2F_4
However, this is where intrinsic motivation comes into play. As Dan Pink mentioned about autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Summary of Flipped Classroom-
Challenged Based Learning: Collaborative learning in which teacher and students work together to identify big ideas, ask questions, and solve challenges, gain in-depth subject area knowledge, develop 21st-century skills, and share their thoughts with the world. In the video, Resilience: Help a community recover from disaster, these students used technology devices effectively by researching and reaching out to local communities to aid them. I was also impressed along with the students' teachers how thoughtful and knowledgeable the students were during the telephone conferences. I would definitely consider using flipped teaching. One of my lesson plans is on nutrition. In my lesson plan, I will have students design a program about how healthy eating and being active help reduce the risk of obesity. By providing a video of the content to students on our school network (echo), classroom time will be for students developing their programs. There I can personalize learning and it will give me the ability to differentiate instruction. I. Howard Gardner: Five minds for the future
a. Discipline- Takes 10 years to master but not it takes 5 years because of computers b. Synthesizing- What do I pay attention to? How will I put it together? How can I put it in arrangement? c. Creative- Thinking outside the box but you cannot think outside the box unless you have a box. d. Respectful- Giving other people the benefit of the doubt. e. Ethical- Requires abstract attitudes. Being in a world involves a higher level of thinking. Sir Ken Robinson- Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson- Bring on the revolution
II. What are your insights from this analysis? Are there common threads in your perceptions? How do your findings fit in with the other topics in this class: 21st century teaching & learning, equity of opportunity for students, the brain, problem-based learning, etc. Throughout my years of teaching, my teaching style was traditional, conformity, and mechanical. Let me use the metaphor of football. When a team loses, everyone lose. I used that approached when I begun teaching P.E. When a student doesn't make their mile time in a specific goal, the whole class ran an extra lap. Looking back, I feel horrible and dreadful of my teaching strategies. But that was how I was thought from my coaches. Listening to my students, it provided me feedback to change lesson plans and ways to scaffold them. Sir Ken Robinson used a great analogy, "Schools must change to an agriculture model". We should let student be creative and grow to their potential. Students flourishing is not a mechanical process, it's an organic process. I strongly believe in equity of opportunity for students. This allows students an opportunity to see if its their strong area and if they are really good at it. III. As instructional leaders, how might you apply Mobley's 6 insights to help your students think creatively? I might apply Mobley's 6 insights to help my students think creatively by providing examples and how to find these examples using the proper resources. I like to build a rapport with students so I ask them what are their interest, what do they like to do, etc. Before going to me for help, I want my students to utilize their peers. I especially want to build student's confidence and always encourage them with positive reinforcement. I found a video called Brain-Based Learning by Glynda Lee Hoffman and she talked about how students are scoring low on academic performance and have low processing skills because of their brain's neural-networks. These students are disorganized, incomplete, and distracted. She stated the brain can form and reorganize (neuroplasticity) through a systematic series of exercises to improve the learning modalities of visual, auditory, and motor that make content become organized and meaningful. With the improvement of processing skills, students will be more engaged, be more self-monitoring, and enjoying the activity. Hoffman also stated how the student's brain is well trained and tuned, their the ability of processing abstract content will become more efficient and more effective therefore immunized against future problems such as being sent to the office, or becoming a criminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xgzhlm4i3g As a middle school teacher, I run into days where students lack the processing skills on the lesson plan. Student collaboration (Student-Centered) has been very effective on students' processing. I believe the word choices and vocabulary used amongst the students makes processing the learning material feasible. From my experience, scaffolding with struggling students has helped with their consistency on being focus and being attentive. What is 21st century learning in physical education? In an article from the US News, a P.E. teacher from San Rafael stated, "We're trying to introduce students to things that they can do that are outside of competitive sports,". These students are introduced adventure-style classes such as sailing, rock climbing, and hiking. She and her colleagues witness students have anxiety when it comes to competitive sports like basketball and soccer. There are many ways to be creative as long there are the resources. Another school from West Virginia provides games for students. They called it the "exergaming room" which includes an Xbox Kinect, ping-pong table, and a carnival basketball hoop. They want students to just move. The studies have shown that students who works out in the exergaming room becomes more active, competitive, and social.
As I am learning new ways to incorporate technology in physical education in terms of using the 4C's, it has given me a different view point on creating my lesson plans. From the TeachingChannel, a teacher used a formative assessment by have student do a Twitter-style exit slip. She gave students specific instructions, students must use 140 characters or less. Characters are letter, space and punctuations. This was a way for her to find out quickly what students have learned without reading a whole paragraph. I have thought about using more google forms feedback in P.E. asking students how they feel, what can be more useful, etc. Many students are involve in social media and some may be new to it, therefore I may utilize technology in that form to promote 21st century learning. As a P.E. teacher, I really want my students to understand the meaning of sportsmanship, teamwork, and practice good health. I want to find different ways to keep them engaged and stay motivated during class. Being a teacher for over a decade, I noticed students like acknowledgments, positive reinforcements, electronic devices, and having fun. I strive my lesson plans to have students stay actively engaged with their prior knowledge, current trends, and the used of technology. Overall, I want my students to be successful. For example, Improving her mile time by 10 seconds, or being able to bump a volleyball to a teammate. When students are making progress in class and as a citizen enlightens my passion. 701 |
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