1. Describe an episode in the case study that demonstrates disequilibrium. Justify your response. Describe an episode that demonstrates assimilation. Justify your response.
When Amy says her grandpa died and went to heaven. She said the fish couldn't be dead because it was still there. It demonstrates disequilibrium because she sees an inconsistency in the way her Grandpa died and how the fish died. She doubts it, but she in turn teaches herself that the fish is dead, her cognitive development is thus growing and she is learning. Assimilation takes place when Amy responds to eating in heaven, she is not sure of the answer, but she says people eat when they get hungry, you would have to eat in heaven or you would be hungry all the time. She has a schema about hunger so she is using that schema to answer the question. I don't know do people need to eat in heaven?
2. Identify a possible instance of preoperational egocentrism in the case. Justify your response.
I think she is using egocentrism when she is looking at the fish in the bowl. The fish is not acting like it normally does, she is using her intuition to justify that something is definitely wrong with the fish. Of course something is wrong when the fish is laying on it's side and not swimming. Amy knew that fish did not sleep on their sides on top of the water.
3. How might a Vygotskian theorist suggest Ms. Bowman address the death of the class pet?
I would think that he would say that the water in the bowl was fouled in some way and that the fish died because it could not get enough air. The fish was dead too, because the children played with it too much and it got sick.
4. How might taking care of pets in the classroom promote students' cognitive development?
A child thinks an animal will act or react in the way that they want it to. If the animal then shows a different method of eating or acts different to the schema, the students have to form new schema to explain why the animal does what it does. They will need to make an accommodation to change the existing schema in their mind.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Educational Neuroscience
What? I looked up and found out a little information about Eric Jensen. Eric Jensen is a researcher and a speaker of Brain Based learning. He was a secondary teacher who decided to do some research on the affects of teaching and how we as teachers can help the students we teach understand and retain the information that is given to them. He focuses on how to teach children who may have some sort of difficulty in life, and how we can help those students learn with certain teaching strategies. He gives workshops and promises to lighten up the teacher development courses we all have to take.
So what does his studies have to do with education? Eric Jensen wants to share the methods of brain based teaching to all teachers. He has introduced a method of teaching that goes deep into the students minds and helps them to learn and focus. He teaches to the teachers, saying that by creating a learning environment in the classroom and in using his methods a teacher can control the classroom and be much more affective. Most of the information that he gives is through his seminars so of course he does not have much about the methods online, but he does say that stress can cause students not to learn. He states "Brain-based teaching is all about smarter, more purposeful teaching that can reach a greater number of students. It’s not any one single thing you do. It’s more about the on-going, purposeful aggregate of environment, instruction and curriculum strategies that makes it all work." I would love to have him come and instruct us sometime.
Now what? I wish I new more about the subject of Brain Based Learning. I understand the importance of teaching the students so that they learn. I am worried that too many students come to the classroom for no reason but to be there filling the desk space. It is my goal to teach so that all my students learn, and not only do they learn, but they enjoy doing it. Brain Based Learning encompasses a broad spectrum of learning,including the environment that is given and the attitude of the teacher and the students at any given time of the day. I want to learn and know how to teach the students with a strategy that works day in and day out. I am sure I will learn that here at UVU too.
So what does his studies have to do with education? Eric Jensen wants to share the methods of brain based teaching to all teachers. He has introduced a method of teaching that goes deep into the students minds and helps them to learn and focus. He teaches to the teachers, saying that by creating a learning environment in the classroom and in using his methods a teacher can control the classroom and be much more affective. Most of the information that he gives is through his seminars so of course he does not have much about the methods online, but he does say that stress can cause students not to learn. He states "Brain-based teaching is all about smarter, more purposeful teaching that can reach a greater number of students. It’s not any one single thing you do. It’s more about the on-going, purposeful aggregate of environment, instruction and curriculum strategies that makes it all work." I would love to have him come and instruct us sometime.
Now what? I wish I new more about the subject of Brain Based Learning. I understand the importance of teaching the students so that they learn. I am worried that too many students come to the classroom for no reason but to be there filling the desk space. It is my goal to teach so that all my students learn, and not only do they learn, but they enjoy doing it. Brain Based Learning encompasses a broad spectrum of learning,including the environment that is given and the attitude of the teacher and the students at any given time of the day. I want to learn and know how to teach the students with a strategy that works day in and day out. I am sure I will learn that here at UVU too.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Motivation Blog
Why am I here in the UVU Education Program? I am here to learn how to teach and what I need to do to become a teacher. I owned my own hardwood flooring company for some years, the economy took a turn for the worst, and I have always wanted to teach so here I am.
What motivates me? I would like to say I am easily motivated and things just come that way naturally for me. I have some things in life that will catch my attention and I will focus on them until I finish or fall ver exhausted. I work really hard for those things I do enjoy. I would say most of the motivation I receive would be an Extrinsic Motivation. I really want to have Intrinsic Motivation in my studies though, I do enjoy psychology and I am anxious to learn how children can be affected psychologically in their studies at school.
How do I succeed? I am an Autonomous learner. I do what needs to be done and I make it happen. I have an internal locus present, which allows me to learn what I need to. I am very apprehensive when it comes to learning though, some might say it is all due to Attribution theory or just plain luck, but I do work hard to succeed. I fail because I do not manage time well, and I am not very organized, I am not good at prioritizing my time nor my studies. I guess I have not mastered Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, sometimes other needs must be met before my own.
Mastery verses Performance goals in the education program? I believe in Mastery Goals for the course. I wish to use the things I learn in class and in the Education Program to help me succeed as a teacher throughout my life. I will use the content that is going to be used in class to make me a better, more understanding teacher. I want to change my study habits I have attributed to my schooling in the past to learn, retain, and reuse information in my own classroom.
How do I need to change my mindset to be a great teacher? I have made teaching a dispositional interest in my life. I want to do it for the rest of my life so I need to use the Goal Theory in my studies. I need set goals for how I want to study and what I want to get done for a night. After setting goals I need to try to meet them every time. I have found an interest and I am excited, however, it is a facilitating anxiety, and I need to keep stresses and flow from turning it to a debilitating anxiety. I will do fine, just no more procrastination! I do have innate psychological needs in life, I would have never thought I would have had problems the first week of the semester, but I have noticed I feel different than any other semester. I am really stressed about time management and how I'm going to get the work done. I know it is a heavy load, but look I am learning already and I am looking forward to learning.
What motivates me? I would like to say I am easily motivated and things just come that way naturally for me. I have some things in life that will catch my attention and I will focus on them until I finish or fall ver exhausted. I work really hard for those things I do enjoy. I would say most of the motivation I receive would be an Extrinsic Motivation. I really want to have Intrinsic Motivation in my studies though, I do enjoy psychology and I am anxious to learn how children can be affected psychologically in their studies at school.
How do I succeed? I am an Autonomous learner. I do what needs to be done and I make it happen. I have an internal locus present, which allows me to learn what I need to. I am very apprehensive when it comes to learning though, some might say it is all due to Attribution theory or just plain luck, but I do work hard to succeed. I fail because I do not manage time well, and I am not very organized, I am not good at prioritizing my time nor my studies. I guess I have not mastered Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, sometimes other needs must be met before my own.
Mastery verses Performance goals in the education program? I believe in Mastery Goals for the course. I wish to use the things I learn in class and in the Education Program to help me succeed as a teacher throughout my life. I will use the content that is going to be used in class to make me a better, more understanding teacher. I want to change my study habits I have attributed to my schooling in the past to learn, retain, and reuse information in my own classroom.
How do I need to change my mindset to be a great teacher? I have made teaching a dispositional interest in my life. I want to do it for the rest of my life so I need to use the Goal Theory in my studies. I need set goals for how I want to study and what I want to get done for a night. After setting goals I need to try to meet them every time. I have found an interest and I am excited, however, it is a facilitating anxiety, and I need to keep stresses and flow from turning it to a debilitating anxiety. I will do fine, just no more procrastination! I do have innate psychological needs in life, I would have never thought I would have had problems the first week of the semester, but I have noticed I feel different than any other semester. I am really stressed about time management and how I'm going to get the work done. I know it is a heavy load, but look I am learning already and I am looking forward to learning.
Course Contract
Course Contract
In the Text the Author states three things we must do as teachers to be better prepared for the 21st Century Classroom. They are: Understanding and Addressing the needs of a Diversity of Learners, Applying Theories and Research in the Classroom, and Critically Examining Teaching Practices. My goals for this course this Semester is to learn Educational Psychology to the extent that I will be prepared for the 21st Century Classroom. I hope to learn the theories that will aid me in teaching. I need to learn how to address the needs of my future students. I need to learn how to create a learning community that is acadmically challenging,developmentally responsive, and socially equitable(Educatioal Psychology, Roxana Moreno).
What will I need to do to acheive these goals? How will I mange my time so that I will be able to learn? I will schedule all my assignments on my phone calender and set a reminder to help me remember my tasks. I will take the appropriate time nessessary to complete the tasks required. This does not mean doing late night studies every night. I have class in the mornings now and I need to use all the time I need to, plus get the rest I need. I need to be prepred and not fall behind, so I will get the studies done and not wait for the last minute. This has bee something I have always struggled with and I need to better myself in this category if I am going to be a teacher.
What stragies will I use to learn and understand the material in the class? After reading some of the study strategies, one thing keep popping out out me. It is Basic Background. What I mean by this is I will create a situation in my mind for each lesson or point that is being taught. It may be someting that has hapened to me in my life or maybe some situation I have heard of somtime. After doing this I will make it personal to me to better familiarize myself with what is being taught, I will associate the content into my life somehow. I will try to incorporate schema into my learning. Learning and expanding on what I have learned in the past will help me to learn faster and more efficiently.
If I do not understand a topic what will I do in my study habits to help me understand the material? When I am reading through the text and I find material that is new to me, I will question it and mark it accordingly. By marking it as a question, my mind will grab hold of the information and process it quicker when I have the question in my mind rather than if I did not at all. I do well when I have a question about something,the problem is trying to remember the qestion. This is where marking the book will help. I need to write my thoughts on the page next to the item in question so I will be able to find it quickly when I need to.
I will reach my goals in this course by bing to class on time to listen to the lecture. I will read the disired text readings, giving myself the time I will need to fully complete it and understand it. I will try to learn and associate with my person to better understand the content, if I do not understand I will mark the material and find the answer to it. The answer will stay in my mind for the rest of my life to better my teaching abilities and help me prosper as teacher.
In the Text the Author states three things we must do as teachers to be better prepared for the 21st Century Classroom. They are: Understanding and Addressing the needs of a Diversity of Learners, Applying Theories and Research in the Classroom, and Critically Examining Teaching Practices. My goals for this course this Semester is to learn Educational Psychology to the extent that I will be prepared for the 21st Century Classroom. I hope to learn the theories that will aid me in teaching. I need to learn how to address the needs of my future students. I need to learn how to create a learning community that is acadmically challenging,developmentally responsive, and socially equitable(Educatioal Psychology, Roxana Moreno).
What will I need to do to acheive these goals? How will I mange my time so that I will be able to learn? I will schedule all my assignments on my phone calender and set a reminder to help me remember my tasks. I will take the appropriate time nessessary to complete the tasks required. This does not mean doing late night studies every night. I have class in the mornings now and I need to use all the time I need to, plus get the rest I need. I need to be prepred and not fall behind, so I will get the studies done and not wait for the last minute. This has bee something I have always struggled with and I need to better myself in this category if I am going to be a teacher.
What stragies will I use to learn and understand the material in the class? After reading some of the study strategies, one thing keep popping out out me. It is Basic Background. What I mean by this is I will create a situation in my mind for each lesson or point that is being taught. It may be someting that has hapened to me in my life or maybe some situation I have heard of somtime. After doing this I will make it personal to me to better familiarize myself with what is being taught, I will associate the content into my life somehow. I will try to incorporate schema into my learning. Learning and expanding on what I have learned in the past will help me to learn faster and more efficiently.
If I do not understand a topic what will I do in my study habits to help me understand the material? When I am reading through the text and I find material that is new to me, I will question it and mark it accordingly. By marking it as a question, my mind will grab hold of the information and process it quicker when I have the question in my mind rather than if I did not at all. I do well when I have a question about something,the problem is trying to remember the qestion. This is where marking the book will help. I need to write my thoughts on the page next to the item in question so I will be able to find it quickly when I need to.
I will reach my goals in this course by bing to class on time to listen to the lecture. I will read the disired text readings, giving myself the time I will need to fully complete it and understand it. I will try to learn and associate with my person to better understand the content, if I do not understand I will mark the material and find the answer to it. The answer will stay in my mind for the rest of my life to better my teaching abilities and help me prosper as teacher.
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