Thursday, August 26, 2010

Chapter 3: The Self, Social, and Moral Development

Respond to the following questions:

1.  What ideas in the chapter will be most useful or valuable to you in a future teaching situation?
2.  How has the content of this chapter changed your view of teaching and learning?
3.  How might you design your classroom using the ideas in this chapter?
4.  Questions that this information has evoked.
5.  Many researchers have suggested that self-esteem is determined by how successful we are in accomplishing tasks or reaching goals we value.  As a middle or high school teacher, how might you use this information to maximize learning in subjects traditionally considered boring?

Chapter 2: Cognitive Development and Langluage

Respond to the following questions:

1.What ideas in the chapter will be most useful or valuable to you in a future teaching situation?
2.  How has the content of this chapter changed your view of teaching and learning?
3.  How might you design your classroom using the ideas in this chapter?
4.  Questions that this information has evoked.

Chapter 1: Learning, Teaching, and Educational Psychology

Respond to the following questions:

1.  What ideas in the chapter will be most useful or valuable to you in a future teaching situation?
2.  How has the content of this chapter changed your view of teaching and learning?
3.  How might you design your classroom using the ideas in this chapter?
4.  Do you believe that teachers make a difference?  What examples from your own education might support that view?