Monday, December 13, 2010

Course Contract Three~

For next semester I need to continue to focus on getting things done earlier. Only once did I finish a project early this semester, and it makes the projects much more stressful than they need to be.While I did learn about what I was hoping to from this class, my focus needs to be instead on not what I'm learning but how. I cannot expect my students to use metacognition techniques if I do not. I did feel like I improved in many areas because of my gained knowledge, but I know I could have improved more. Next semester I plan on writing in my planner earlier due dates than things are actually do so that I at least have a reminder to start my assignments earlier than the night before or a few days before. I really enjoyed much of what we learned and covered and I plan on keeping all the study guides as well as the book as a reference for later on.

Thank you for being a great professor who teaches how you teach us to  teach. It was enjoyable coming to your class, even when it was Monday morning and still dark outside!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Multiple Intelligence Lesson

My multiple intelligences are interpersonal and kinesthetic. I chose the topic of modern constructivism for my presentation. What I had the class do was come up with actions to remember different words on the study sheet. I come up with little actions either actually or in my mind in order to remember concepts so I asked the class to get in groups and do the same. It was fun teaching in our own intelligences and I felt like we were able to make many connections for the material, no matter how brief.