Chapter 1 Question 1:
Standards have altered teacher preparation programs and curriculum requirements in schools. The intention behind standardization is to ensure equivalent and consistent instruction and to provide measurable outcomes. Do you believe that the implementation of standards identified by national, state, and curriculum organizations has accomplished their intent? Explain why or why not? When the word standard is mentioned, it normally leads into heavy discussion of standardized testing. If you truly look at the value and understand the concept of requiring curriculum, state and nationwide standards, I feel the need and purpose is valid. The standards provide structure for the planning, teaching and assessing of student learning. As an educator, I feel standards provide a form of communication for teachers, students and parents to have a streamline understanding of the expectations within the school and classroom. Standards help ensure that learning is taking place and provide guidelines for educators. Providing those expectations for learning helps ensure learning targets are known and instruction is focused and purposeful. Standards also help assess student and teacher performance in the classroom. Student performance assessments provide information in relation to specific needs of students being met in the learning environment. Alignment of instruction and standards are necessary to ensure proper delivery of content. With all of this being said, it is quite alarming that our students and educators are held to different standards based on the state in which they live. National standards would help provide consistency and alignment of success for our students as they transition to colleges and careers country wide or even internationally. Holding our students to different standards based on the state in which they live could lead to learning gaps and unequipped entry into “the real world”. Chapter 2 Question 2: Different students have different learning styles and their learning styles influence their learning. As a teacher, you should understand your students learning styles when preparing for the classes. Discuss your understanding on different learning styles and its influence on learning. As technology is ever changing, the way our students learn still remains true to their learning style(s). Learning styles speak to the understanding that every student absorbs, processes, comprehends and retains information differently. Knowing and understanding these learning styles is crucial for success on the teacher and learner’s behalf. There are three primary modalities for learning: auditory, kinesthetic, and visual. Auditory learners best understand new content through listening and speaking in situations such as lectures and group discussions. Students who are kinesthetic learners best understand information through experience and practice. These students are hands-on learners and learn best through use of their hands. Visual learners have to see it to understand it. Identifying which learning style is primary for a student can help increase academic confidence and set them up for success. Life experiences as well as the atmosphere in which one is in can determine which learning style best accommodates individuals. Technology has truly influenced the delivery and ability to meet the needs of learners in the classroom. A teacher/facilitator is able to provide instruction that meets the needs of all learning styles within the delivery of one lesson. For example, a lesson on problem solving may begin with a hands-on unplugged activity guided by a hand-out and teacher instruction. Learners would then take the data and knowledge obtained through the hands-on activity and input it into a program that would provide visual feedback on their findings. Chapter 3: Question 3: This chapter introduced that lesson planning was an outgrowth of your instructional design. The DID section helped you see the overall organization of your instructional unit, and this lesson plan section helped you address what you would do to achieve the unit on an instructional day-to-day basis. Now identify, describe and use the most common steps in lesson planning. The Dynamic Instructional Design (DID) model is used to simplify and guide the delivery of instruction. The framework provides flexibility while maintaining its heavy focus on the learner and feedback. Step 1: Know the Learners Take time to get to know your learners. Become familiar with the learner’s cultural background, prior knowledge, and learning styles in order to determine the most effective instructional design. Step 2: Standards-Aligned Performance Objectives Objectives created to measure student performance that are valid and reliable. The objectives should include the expectations of material learned by the end of an instructional unit. Bloom’s taxonomy provides a list of sample performance action verbs that targets learners’ cognitive levels based on instruction. Step 3: Identify Teaching and Learning Strategies Teaching and learning strategies should meet the needs of the learner(s) as well as the outline of the objectives. Teaching strategies need to allow learner(s) to connect to their prior knowledge, introduce new concepts, and reinforce objectives. Learning strategies will include formative and summative assessments to determine the mastery level of the objectives. Step 4: Select Support Technologies Taking the teaching and learning strategies into consideration, the teacher should plan technology, media and materials that will be integrated to support the students learning. Step 5: Assess and Revise An assessment of student learning should be performed. Based on the results, the teacher should reflect and make revisions to the instructional design for future implementations. Be sure the feedback and the assessments accurately measure the achievement of objectives. Copyright © 2019 All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of [email protected] is prohibited.
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Reginald Matthews
6/17/2019 07:59:48 pm
I can definitely tell that you are experienced teacher by the way you described the steps in the chapter 3 question. Very detailed.and that's the way it needs to be for it to be the most effective.
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S.Kaur
7/23/2019 07:30:48 pm
I like your standpoint of implementation of standards. Also, your explanation of the steps are very easy to understand. The way your explained the DID model in simple terms was very easy to understand. In today's world technology is used everywhere and we can definitely benefit from it for educational purposes. Children at a very young age are born in to a world driven by technology. I enjoyed reading your answers!
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Tian
7/25/2019 08:33:59 pm
Thank you for your elaborate answers to these questions. You made a good summary about the DID model steps and I agree with your consideration of the different national standards. Meet the needs of all students is a hard work to do, but the effectiveness of learning might be affected if teachers don't consider the students' learning style. It's a dilemma to be effective at work or spend effort to do the best for all.
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