What do you learn from these conversations with Anthony Capps? When Mr. Capps set down with Dr. Strange they discussed project based learning. The goal of PBL is to show that students actually are learning something in the classroom and show their progress in the classroom as well. PBL is an awesome way to make students go out and look for the information they in order to be successful. This is huge for students it gives them a sense of pride in themselves because they independently went out and found exactly what they need.
In the next video iCurio, which is a search engine. Anthony explains exactly what this is, I have never heard of this before until now and it seems very useful and safe. It allows students to safely search the web and find the information they need without parents and teacher worrying about what websites they are going on to find it.
In Anthony and Dr. Strange's Tips for Teaching Part 1 they give five useful tips for teachers to succeed.
1. Be Interested in Learning Yourself - If you are not interested in learning your students will not want to learn. You as the teacher are their role model and you have to set a good example for them.
2. Hard Work - It will be hard work but let it be fun for you and your students.
3. Be Flexible - Always be ready and prepared for the unexpected.
4. Get Kids Engaged - You want the students engaged in learning, if not they will not learn.
5. Reflection - Always try and revise your work to make it better because you can always better yourself.
In our last video Don't Teach Tech Use it, basically says that as teachers we shouldn't waste our time tying to teach students how to use technology, because they most likely know more than us already.
The last video Additional Thoughts about Lessons, Anthony teaches how to make a lesson plan using four steps. The first step and most important is to make your lesson plan for the year. Then you need to break down the plan into 6 or 8 weeks. The next step is to break it down into units. Each of these steps have equal importance to being a successful teacher.
Where are your links to the videos you watched? And where is your picture? Every single blog post is required to have working links and at least one picture with alt/title modifiers!
ReplyDeleteI think you really nailed Mr. Capps main points. Being interested in learning yourself, hard work, flexibility, engaging students, and reflecting are all topics he touched on more than once. I really like the structure of your post. The way you numbered the topics makes it easy for the reader to follow along! Aside from a few grammatical errors, I think you did a great job!
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