Learning Log Ch.7

What?
This week in class we learned about learning construction and how a big part of that is one's meaning behing their knowledge. If astudent doesn't know what a chair is they won't be able to describe one, for example. Learning is a process not something your born with and as you learn new concepts more pathways are made in your brain. Concepts are a way to help us learn what a word,feeling,action is, what it means, and what it does. It also helps one to start organizing knowledge with other similar memories. With the world filled with information different views and theories of that information come along with it. This is where misconceptions come into play and confuse children of the truth. Teachers especially need to be giving factual information and backing it up with primary sources for students to compare. Discovery learning is a good way for teachers to respond to students who don't quite get it. Instead of saying thats wrong , say that;s not quite what I'm looking for its a little different from what I'm thinking of. This way they will want to find out the real answer and not feel shut down. The students then will continue to ask questions and not feel dumb and picked on.
So What?
This weeks topic is of importance to a future teacher , in that everything you say to students is building up their knowledge. You're the one that helps to construct the learning that takes place either good or bad. By knowing that they' re going to have outside knowledge and different understandings you can decide how to best teach. By knowing these basics then you can incorporate them into authentic activities were they really get a different learning experience. This is a part of the syllabus because learning daily and how its constructed is a human behavior, without it we wouldn't function. We then can learn more about what ways we construct knowledge and then experiment with the students and find the ways they learn best. This will make me a great teacher, in that, I will constantly be looking for ways that can help my students get different kinds of experiences out of original lesson material, so that they remember.
Now What?
Lesson Topic: Seasons k-1st grade
Engage: Read the story, A Tree for all Seasons. Ask questions to students about the surroundings of the tree and what's different about them. Does the tree change being outside at different seasons? What happens to the leaves?
Explore: Have students all help to make a classroom weather chart where at the beginning of class one helper can write or draw a picture of the weather that day.
Explain:Studnets would tell about the weather and something they saw or found out. This would come from their seasons journal they keep at school. They would think-pair-share with friend.
Elaborate: Studnets will create their own collage of each season using crafts in class.
Evaluate: Students will show in their artwork and by what describing word they chose to describe each season in collage, what they have learned about the seasons and how they make them feel.