From Green Blazers To Blue Corduroys

The Journey of Student Teaching: Day 20 Fourth Week Reflections: Teaching a Full Load Essential Question for this Week: What did you learn this week while student teaching? To me this fourth week started out really nerve racking.  Only 3 days into the semester and I will be teaching for a total of 7 out of 9 periods in the day.  To me this was nerve racking more because this made me realize that this was real. With teaching 7 periods what I learned is that I needed to be willing to let the Inquiry and Independent work happen. As the saying goes: When you assume . . . And I probably started last week with that with the students. For example when I hear the word Biotechnology I think that students should have strong scores in chemistry and biology before taking it.  What I didn't plan on was on that in a high school not everything is taught on the level that I learned stuff in high school. And so I started Biotech last week with this feeling of total dread bec...

Weekly Investment: Learning as Problem Solving Disclaimer: I have already written two blogs on individual learning so instead I thought it would be pretty cool to focus on the second part of the reading Problem Solving as a form of Learning.  If you want to see those two blogs check out these two links: Individualized Learning in a Room of Many Individuals (Part One):  http://fromgreenblazers2bluecorduroysaged.blogspot.com/2017/10/individual-learning-in-room-of-many.html Individual Learning Part Two - Different Ways Of Application:   http://fromgreenblazers2bluecorduroysaged.blogspot.com/2017/10/individual-learning-part-two-different_9.html Learning as Problem Solving Every day we go through self learning. Take for example these blogs that we are writing are a sense of self learning: We write them over the weekends on readings that are our focus in learn for the upcoming week.  Then we write these blogs and are challenged to read each others blogs and deve...

Individual Learning Part Two - Different Ways Of Application  Individualized Teaching is a pretty cool strategy for learning. There are a couple of different ways as a teacher you could include this style of learning into the classroom. Some of the main styles are: Supervised Study Experiments Independent Study Student Notebooks   Sheet Resources Each is similar but also different so here are some notes on each along with resources for more information: Supervised Study This could be one of two things. A mini research paper or could be a Supervised Agricultural Experience. The key here is getting students interested. The best example I have seen are scenario based which could be argued as a Problem Solving Approaches as well. There are six kinds of supervised studies: All students study the same problem using the same reference. All students study the same problem using different references. Small groups ...

Individualized Learning in a Room of Many Individuals (Part One) Reading Chapter 7 of our major textbook of study I can't help but find much of the lessons I am reading to be very relevant and informational for not just me but my peers when it comes to a major topic: Individualized Learning.  First let us define individualized learning: learning through the work of individuals or small groups. This concept differs from group learning because of how it applies the usage. In Group Learning I as the teacher am feeding the information. In individual learning I may give information at the end but in reality it is student driven. The students preform the Learning themselves by working alone or in small groups to solve a problem.  The first question I have to ask is this one: Why Use Individualized Learning? This individualizes the learning It helps students learn to inquire into the subject matter It promotes independence  It helps students learn to make and use more than one o...