My Favorite Alignment

I have been putting on the teacher hat intensely the past couple of days and I have come to notice that a lot of my professors have the same alignment. Being in my major mostly at this point I can understand why. However, I am coming to enjoy a certain form of alignment. I am sure that through many observations and experimentation I will come to change my mind. For the alignment I am coming to enjoy is the hands-on alignment. For example, the goals would be to have the students be able to perform tasks on their own. The curriculum would consist of hands-on activities daily with students performing the tasks on their own with assistance from the teacher when needed. The pedagogy would consist of student based learning and the teacher would be available when needed. And finally, the assessment would consist of the students actually performing the task themselves and evaluated on how well the task was completed. I believe that students can benefit more from hands-on rather than lecture because of the practice that is required with hands-on, and practice makes perfect!

Education Alignment

My first response to alignment was that this is going to be hard to see. However, I was mistaken. I have been able to see education alignment in all of my classes. One specific class that comes to mind first is an English class that I have taken. My previous work in basically all of the upper English classes I have taken, the assessment was based off of all writing projects. Each class consisted of the goal having students be able to analyze literature, the curriculum, essays and short papers, the pedagogy, small group work and lecture, and the assessment, final essays. Although, in one class I have recently gone through, the assessment had quizzes as well as essays. In the beginning of the class, I had no idea what exactly the quizzes would consist of. Anyway, I have plenty of time to observe other classrooms and I am eager to discover exactly how teachers keep an alignment.