What Is Your Learning Style?
What Is Your Learning Style? This quiz asks 24 questions and will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. By the end, you may have some new insights into your learning preferences. Editor's Note (2013): There is no scientific evidence, as of yet, that shows that people have specific, fixed learning styles or discrete intelligences, nor that students benefit when teachers target instruction to a specific learning style or intelligence.
What’s the best child care money can buy?
Lisa Larson-Walker This story is part of a series on 2-year-olds produced by the Hechinger Report and the Teacher Project, nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate magazine. One morning in May, an almost 2-year-old with dark-blond hair named Marin arrived at “school” around 8:30 a.m., a shiny unicorn-shaped backpack on her tiny shoulders. She wore the disgruntled expression of someone whose morning had gotten off to a bad start. In Marin’s case, that was because of an “accident” she had had on the way to school—an accident that now meant changing out of one of her favorite pairs of pants into leopard-print leggings she didn’t like nearly so well. Marin’s crankiness perturbed no one at her school, the early childhood program of the century-old Bank Street College of Education on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, called the Family Center. “I probably wouldn’t have enrolled her in any other school,” says Marin’s mother, Gabrielle Felman. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Overview of learning styles
Many people recognize that each person prefers different learning styles and techniques. Learning styles group common ways that people learn. Everyone has a mix of learning styles. Some people may find that they have a dominant style of learning, with far less use of the other styles. Using multiple learning styles and �multiple intelligences� for learning is a relatively new approach. By recognizing and understanding your own learning styles, you can use techniques better suited to you. The Seven Learning Styles Visual (spatial):You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding. Why Learning Styles? Your learning styles have more influence than you may realize. Research shows us that each learning style uses different parts of the brain. For example: Visual: The occipital lobes at the back of the brain manage the visual sense. Where to next?
What Is Differentiated Instruction?
Click the "References" link above to hide these references. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997). Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books. Danielson, C. (1996). Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching. Sternberg, R. Tomlinson, C. (1995). Tomlinson, C. (1999). Vygotsky, L. (1986). Winebrenner, S. (1992).
Journal of Educational Controversy - Article: Developing Dispositions for Ambitious Teaching
Developing Dispositions for Ambitious Teaching David Carroll Western Washington University Critics of teacher education in recent years have argued that attempts to assess dispositions for teaching amount to a process of political indoctrination, claiming that teacher candidates are often expected to endorse ideas like “white privilege” and “social justice” as a kind of political litmus test for entering the teaching profession. In some circumstances, teacher education programs have avoided this kind of controversy by limiting their attention to dispositions such as honesty, integrity, and professional interactions. Charges and counter charges about the potential political implications of dispositions, and lack of clarity about other dimensions of dispositions, have obscured fundamental associations between personal beliefs and professional ethics, and between dispositions and ambitious conceptions of teaching. Role orientation is also the underpinning of professional practice.
8 Strategies Robert Marzano & John Hattie Agree On
Robert Marzano and John Hattie have both reviewed research into what teaching strategies make the biggest difference to students’ results. While they used different methods and terminology, they agreed on these 8 powerful strategies. Strategy 1: A Clear Focus for the Lesson John Hattie highlights how important it is for you (and your students) to be clear about what you want them to learn in each lesson. Hattie states that lesson goals: Clearly state what you want your students to learnCan focus on surface or deep learning (or both)Must be challenging for the students relative to their current mastery of the topicMay be grouped (i.e. a single lesson may have more than one goal)Need to be shared with the students Marzano also found that posing questions at the start of a lesson is an effective way to focus students: For example: How do you add mixed fractions with different denominators? Hattie suggests using questions a slightly different way: What are today’s lesson goals?
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Promoting an Activist Teacher Identity
What does it mean to be a professional teacher? What is the work of professional teachers? How do we construct our understandings of teacher professionalism? These are all questions I explore with pre-service teachers in my undergraduate teaching – most just two or three years removed from being high-school students themselves. They find navigating the complexities of their transitioning teacher identity an arduous task. These questions are precisely the reason I moved from being a K-12 educator to being a professor of education – to challenge future generations of teachers to question traditional notions of the work of professional teachers and promote the development of an activist teaching identity. “Professionalism requires that we go beyond the classroom performance or classroom activity as descriptors of teaching acts to the complete and complex role a teacher fulfills. Hargreaves and Goodson proposed the idea of “post-modern professionalism.” We want to know what you think. Dr.
