Baggio: What I drew from Baggio this week was her "Trilogy of the Mind". That there are three domains that the brain needs to learn, affective domain (emotions), cognitive domain( how you think), and conative domain ( how you instinctively do what you do) (Baggio pg.30). There is a lot that goes into learning and the according to Baggio the affective domain is the most important. I agree because emotions play an important part in our life and if we are upset we might not like something, but if we are having a good day and are in a good mood we might really enjoy that same thing we hated yesterday because we are looking at it with new eyes. It is the affective domain that I see most common in my students. When they are happy and know that they have to work hard through math so they can get that free time they give it their all and finish the lesson without complaints. On the other hand when they have not been on task and they have to owe me recess after math they complain about the lesson and we don't get to finish the lesson. Another key point I took from Baggio was the fact that prior knowledge is very important to help make connections and help make sense of new information. " Taking advantage of prior knowledge helps the visual system resolve this ambiguity" (Baggio pg 43). Thinking about my driving question I have to make sure I somehow access my student's prior knowledge and take that to connect to the new information.
Clark: There was a lot of information in these chapters, but what I understood was that in every lesson there must be key elements: Needs assessment, task analysis, learning objectives, assessment, development, course evaluation, and implementation. As I was reading about all these elements I couldn't help but picture my paper from last semester. My paper included these elements and my action research also followed some of these steps. What I took from the reading was that to be a good teacher then all the instruction must be explicit and students must be clear what the goals are. The teacher must provide appropriate materials, resources, and activate prior knowledge to facilitate learning. Dervin: Dervin talked about bridging the gap. As a teacher we must provide the appropriate tools to get our students to bridge the unknown material and make sense of the new information. As a teacher I need to be asking my students more why questions to get them thinking about the overall picture. Helping my students understand and make connections to the new material is what I need to strive to everyday in my teaching. I think that my driving question is something like " What strategy will help improve bilingual student reading comprehension, while keeping them interested/engaged?" My new need to knows are to find out what strategies are out there that are both in English and Spanish that will help my students with comprehension in reading.
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