Friday, August 27, 2010
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!
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As you sit and notice this more and more you can begin to develop idea of how to run a hands-on classroom of your own. Classroom management issues change with a hands on environment so pre-requisite to that in a High School setting would be good relationships with your students and accountability for their productivity. In other words, some way to measure what students produce when they are working in groups as an incentive for them to stay on task.
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