Blog #5

I thought the article was interesting, but I don't completely agree with what's being done. I think that it's good to have standards and goals for what should be learned, but it shouldn't be rigid. As a teacher, I should know the skills kindergarters need to learn and it's good to be reminded of those skills, but to have 90-page manual on how to teach these skills is somewhat unnecessary. Learning should be fun and creative! Children aren't machines who we need to have manuals for on how to get them to learn skills properly. We need to be flexible on how children learn and adapt how we teach skills depending on the needs of each child and how they learn best. Plus, I'm sorry but I'm not sure how much I could read or retain from reading a 90-page manual. That's why I'm in college now to learn effective ways of teaching skills so I can know how to adapt to learning needs and not have to read a 90-page manual later. However, don't think that I'm completely against or hostile towards this idea, I think it's good to have such a reference from which to possibly get ideas and reforcement that useful skills are being taught. =)

Blog #4

The lesson I would do with these pictures would be to have a science lesson about marine life. The lesson is intended for third grade. I took these pictures while at the New Port Aquarium in Kentucky. We could have a unit about marine life and the kind of marine life that are found in aquariums and children could share their experiences with aquariums and fish. Based on what marine life interested them, the children would pick a fish like ones from the pictures above or a marine animal and then research it and write a one page report on the information they found. This way the children would all learn something new about different marine life.

Blog #3

My teaching philosophy is:
Learning=fun
Inspire growth and self-belief
Motivate
Impact
Successful, useful skills

Basically, my philosophy is why is this important? Why should this be learned? If it's not useful or important why are children or anyone want to learn it?

Blog #2

"Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory" says unlike the traditional psychological view of intelligence, individuals have more than one form of intelligence other than logical and mathematical intelligence. This theory says that people have seven different intelligences. Each individual has different strongsuits in various or particular intelligences that enable them to solve problems or produce outcomes.

“Bloom’s taxonomy” is a theory that proposes a classification of various objectives and skills that educators should put into place for their students. It divides these educational objectives into three domains: Affective, Psychomotor, and Cognitive. The domains are set in a hierachy where learning at a higher level is based previously acquired knowledge and skills at lower levels of learning.

"Dale's cone of experience" uses the model of cone to show the relationships of educational experiences to reality or what is simulated in real life.


I believe all the theories supports technology integration in the classroom because although they provide a format or a proposed model, as a teacher we can adapt theories to fit into the teaching methods we want to use. We can use technology to help us appeal to individual students' intelligences as well as use technology to make educational experiences relate to real life.