We were asked to have a look at our Ways of Working and blooms revied taxonomy and find the doing words that are the same whether they be higher or lower-order thinking. Here is mine
Words form WoW/ World from Blooms/ Higher or Lower- order thinking
Identify/ Identifying/ Lower
Investigation/ Investigation/ Higher
Make/ Making/ Higher
As we can see there are not many words that match at all.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Reforms to middle schooling
Why does Qld need to reform middle schooling?
Middle schooling is a time in a students life when they start to drift away from what is happening at school and start to focus more on what is happening out in their local community, in Australia and in the world. It is a period of time in which they (the student) want to have control of their lives. they are sick of being told what to do and want to be able to structure their own learning experiences and adventures. They change the way that they learn and the way that they see the world.
We as teachers need to start implementing ways in which to give the students certain amounts of control over what they are learning. We need to make what we are teaching them blend into what is happening in the community. We need to make it lively and interesting by using teaching tools that the students are going to be comfortable with not the tools that the teacher is going to be comfortable with. As teachers we need to find a way to re engage the students as we lose them, we need to increase participation rates and we have to keep every one focused and motivated.
What aspects of middle schooling do I think are good?
I can only give my point of view from the school and subject area (Manual Arts) that I am at. It is a Private school that is very focused on providing their students with the best possible learning tools and environments. They have a middle school coordinator and you can really see the difference when you are in a middle school class. The students are a bit louder bouncing ideas off of each other, they have a bit more lead way to explore what project they wish to do or if it is set what project that they have to do then they are allowed to design a sticker or or a cut out they they can do to make their project distinct from all of the others.
They are asked to go out into the community and come back with a problem that as a class they are going to try to fix (this leads onto individual assignment). They are expected to go and talk to a professional in this area that they decide to work in. The students engage in the class very well. There are basically no behaviour management problems and the students are usually finished their set work well before the end of class and are looking for some other new and exciting challenge.
Middle schooling is a time in a students life when they start to drift away from what is happening at school and start to focus more on what is happening out in their local community, in Australia and in the world. It is a period of time in which they (the student) want to have control of their lives. they are sick of being told what to do and want to be able to structure their own learning experiences and adventures. They change the way that they learn and the way that they see the world.
We as teachers need to start implementing ways in which to give the students certain amounts of control over what they are learning. We need to make what we are teaching them blend into what is happening in the community. We need to make it lively and interesting by using teaching tools that the students are going to be comfortable with not the tools that the teacher is going to be comfortable with. As teachers we need to find a way to re engage the students as we lose them, we need to increase participation rates and we have to keep every one focused and motivated.
What aspects of middle schooling do I think are good?
I can only give my point of view from the school and subject area (Manual Arts) that I am at. It is a Private school that is very focused on providing their students with the best possible learning tools and environments. They have a middle school coordinator and you can really see the difference when you are in a middle school class. The students are a bit louder bouncing ideas off of each other, they have a bit more lead way to explore what project they wish to do or if it is set what project that they have to do then they are allowed to design a sticker or or a cut out they they can do to make their project distinct from all of the others.
They are asked to go out into the community and come back with a problem that as a class they are going to try to fix (this leads onto individual assignment). They are expected to go and talk to a professional in this area that they decide to work in. The students engage in the class very well. There are basically no behaviour management problems and the students are usually finished their set work well before the end of class and are looking for some other new and exciting challenge.
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