Sept 20 WBU EDUC 5301: September 2011

Prompt #10: Sign-off

Robust thinking tonight, colleagues.

Thanks for making me think and making me a better educator.

Watch your email for next week’s assignments.

Good night, All.

Prompt #9: Educational Psychology, Chapter 11

Identify two words from Chapter 11 that were new to you and define them in your own words.

Prompt #8: Educational Psychology, Chapter 10

Make some kind of substantive connection between one of the topics in Chapter 10 and one of the research summaries done for tonight’s class.

Prompt #7: Research Re-Construction

Create a top four list of the research topics presented, prioritized by the topics you feel will be most important for your success as an early-service teacher.

Briefly comment on why your #1 is your #1.

Prompt #6: Research Deconstruction

Create a top four list of the research topics presented, prioritized by the newest or most significant learning for you.

Briefly comment on why your #1 is your #1.

Take 40 minutes to carefully view and digest all eight sets of slides of the research topics done by our class this week. I just sent them to your email account in PDF form (they run a little more quickly in that format).

Here are the topics:

1. TEKS structural components and organization (Comey)

2. Concept-Based Curriculum: Lynn Erickson (Gregory)

3. Fenwick English’s work (Johnston)

4. Modifying curriculum for special needs students (Parks)

5. Character Education (Price)

6. Core Learning (Rocha)

7. Gifted/Talented Curriculum (White)

1. Ron Clark’s 55 Rules (White)

I’ll post the next prompt in 40 minutes.

Prompt #4: Learning Task Development

Take one concept/idea/skill from the academic discipline you plan to teach and “build” a learning task for that concept for EACH level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Put all six of those brief examples in your comment box.