the Glossary of Education Reform, Instructional Scaffolding used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process. The term itself offers the relevant descriptive metaphor: teachers provide successive levels of temporary support that help students reach higher levels of comprehension and skill acquisition that they would not be able to achieve without assistance. Like physical scaffolding, the supportive strategies are incrementally
Reflective practice are methods and techniques that help individuals and groups reflect on their experiences and actions in order to engage in a process of continuous learning. By trying out methods of reflection and personal inquiry we can nurture greater self-awareness, imagination and creativity, as well as systemic, non-linear modes of thinking and analysis. Reflective Practice is a very adaptable process. It is a set of ideas that can be used alongside many other concepts for training, learning
INTRODUCTION This paper will discusses experiences in the classrooms and how to approach teaching English as a second language. This paper will discuss lessons and my personal experiences in the classroom. Experience in the classroom has varied between beginners, intermediate and advanced classes. I will discuss various teaching approaches to teaching English as a second language and about how classroom management is important to utilize. This paper will discuss a summary of observers of my
Reflective practice are methods and techniques that help individuals and groups reflect on their experiences and actions in order to engage in a process of continuous learning. By trying out methods of reflection and personal inquiry we can nurture greater self-awareness, imagination and creativity, as well as systemic, non-linear modes of thinking and analysis. Reflective Practice is a very adaptable process. It is a set of ideas that can be used alongside many other concepts for training, learning
1. What are the two critical elements to keep in mind when using instructional scaffolding? Modeling and Practice are the two critical elements to keep in mind when using instructional scaffolding. Modeling is when the teacher demonstrates or models each step in a task or strategy multiple times, so that through repetition and modeling the students understand both how to perform each step and why. Practice is when the students are allowed to either work individually or in groups with the teacher
Significance of the Study: The purpose of this paper is to prove that technology has a negative effect on students' socialization skills so as to give recommendation and change on how students should use technology.Technology makes students to be intelligent but it is proven that, that intelligence might have negative impact/s to the them. Rationale: Christian Lous Lange once said, "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master". The CNN article said that by the
Keeping the 9 Month School Calendar Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of advantages of keeping the current 9-month school calendar as opposed to changing to a year-round calendar. Central Idea: The notion of changing from the 9-month calendar to a year-round calendar is a popular discussion on being an improvement to improve the education system in the United States. Even though there are many advantages to this change there are also many
Cyber slang is a type of language which was created and popularized by internet users. These words are created from a mixture of letters and numbers or abbreviations used to shorten words for instant conversations. And some of these terms or abbreviations originated from chats, blogging, statuses and online gaming. The use of cyber slang or the internet slang is one of the fast pacing trends of this generation and its evolution contributes to the formation of vocabulary as it adds up new words to
Thank you so much for allowing Sarah and I to attend OLC this month. It was both professionally rewarding and informational. Though many times I go to conferences hoping to come back with new gadgets or tools to implement, the value in this conference was definitely the collaboration with others. During my first break out session, I met Dr. Omar Lopez. He is from the University of Texas and is in the midst of building a competency based program at Texas State University. He was very interested
“Online education is like that sweet honey, Which one can enjoy to the fullest by paying very less money.” Education being a necessity of life is always taken into the prime consideration. It started with the era of ‘Rishi-Munis’ (Priests and saints) when learning was given in a place away from the crowd of the towns and cities. But slowly the time changed and the modern time introduced proper classrooms for studies and providing education, which is still the most prominent way of learning today
In other words, most researches firmly believe that knowledge is constructed, but some (e.g. main stream instructional designers) do not adopt an instructional design that is labelled "constructivist". Typically, a constructivist teaching strategy is based on the belief that students learn best when they gain knowledge through exploration and active learning. Hands-on materials are
Imagine a world without any form of technology whether it’s a phone or a washing machine. It no longer exists. It might be an impossible task to accomplish due to the fact that technology is everywhere. That, however, is not an understatement technology seems to find a way into everyone 's life. In fact some rely on technology for more than bragging rights or the latest app, some rely on it for an education. In this time of constant technological advances technology has made its way into education
JoAnn Campbell, an assistant professor of English at Indiana University, discusses the role intimacy plays in the classroom setting. Her focus on English A as an introductory writing course displays the extremely combative relationship between recently admitted students and dictatorial professors. Campbell pinpoints the source of this struggle as professors’ resistance to, or even fear of intimacy with the students. This fear can be connected to a need for authority, hence the traditional “hierarchical
Memo To: Susan L. Eller From: Kaitlyn Mercer Subject: Evaluation of Using the Scaffolding and Differentiation Instructional Methods with English Language Learners for Analytical Research Report Date: June 27, 2015 Project Overview As my term project, I have been evaluating the issue of how to effectively teach English Language Learners (ELLs) in a high school setting by examining the scaffolding teaching method as well as the differentiation teaching method. I have been assessing both of these
employing active teaching. It has shown to be effective, exclusively in the basic skills. As noted by Brophy (1986) stated, “teachers who engage in active teaching are the instructional leaders of their classrooms; they are fully knowledgeable about the content and purposes of the instruction they present and about the instructional goals they wish to accomplish” (p.31). An active teacher is a leader in the classroom and do a lot of teaching. In the classroom, active teachers use and discuss strategies
children to their text levels and for educating using texts that are instructional level. Although there hasn’t been any solid research demonstrating that instructional level is effective, the concept has gained attention because it was not working to put students in challenging texts that they could not read. According to the instructional level theory, placing students in relatively easy texts will ensure that they can read instructional materials with a reasonable level of fluency and comprehension
command) is quite important because it will establish the achievement academically and lower class wise. Unfortunately, little research was found when addressing the technology access of non-dominant youth’s. Furthermore, with the scaffolding (refering to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understandings) of educator’s, the Latinos(as) were able to gain knowledge in how to
started and places, where Suffrage Movement was most active. Mrs.Sommers asked the students to open their social studies journal and follow the lesson by writing down the time line of the events and its most important details. Mrs.Sommers would ask scaffolding questions about each of the discussed events. Periodically, she would ask students to reflect their opinion on the subject matter in their interactive journals. Mrs.Sommers included the whole class discussion about the Suffrage Movement and the
1. In general, how successful was the lesson? What evidence supports your conclusion? (3d, 4a) I believe the lesson was very successful. Students were actively engaged with materials, and content for the whole extension of the period. In addition, the teacher was able to visit and conferences with each ability group, and hear their discussion points. I also believe this lesson was successful because based on the discussions; the students have a firm understanding of the book and how to run discussions
during learning (Schunk, 2015). In this paper, I will discuss the learning theories of behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and humanism and some principles within these theories that apply to learning like classical and operant conditioning, scaffolding, schemas, situated cognition, Bloom’s taxonomy, as well metacognitive activities. With research findings, we can learn what it takes to use different parts of our brain for different learning theories.