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Summary Of Chapter 3 And View The Powerpoint On Today's Student

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1. Read Ryan and Cooper Chapter 3 and view the powerpoint on “Today’s Students”. Both address the diversity of the students you will be teaching. Which of the teaching implications in the text did you connect with for addressing diversity and why? What forms of diversity among students do you believe will present you with the greatest challenges?

After viewing the PowerPoint “Today’s Students” and reading Chapter 3 from Ryan and Cooper's text, the teaching implication that addresses diversity that I connected with the most was the approach of multicultural education. Specifically, human relations, which attempts to build positive relations among members of different racial and cultural groups. Many students have not had …show more content…

Complete the MI inventory in the “learning activities” folder. What intelligence areas were your strengths? Since we tend to teach to our strengths use the “Multiple Intelligence Menu” on page 71 of the Ryan and Cooper text to locate and then describe at least two strategies that you could use in your teaching that incorporate intelligences other than the ones you identified as your strengths.

After completing the Multiple Intelligences inventory, one of the strengths was my kinesthetic strength. This cannot be any more accurate. I studied Kinesiology during my undergraduate degree. I have always learned best when moving and one strategy that best represents that is hands-on learning. I will be focusing on teaching physical education, so using hands-on learning in my teaching will help incorporate intelligence to my students. Another strategy would be creating a movement or sequence of movements to explain a skill. Many students have trouble kicking a soccer ball. If I am able to create a movement or sequence to help explain the concept, it will incorporate my strengths to help other students learn.

3. View the powerpoint on “Classroom Management (Part I)” and read Wong & Wong Unit C

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