Chapter five was certainly an extensive chapter. This chapter was all about the curriculum. The first thing that stood out to me in this chapter was the fact that up until recently there was not really any set national standards or really state standards in place. They started putting national standards in place in 1994, and then in 2001 NCLB act (No Child Left Behind act) got passed while President Bush was in office. Since then common core standards have been implemented in many states including Illinois. This means that I will have "guidelines" so to speak to keep in mind as I am doing my lesson plans.
The second thing that caught my eye was the whole head, heart, and hands analogy that was brought up in the chapter video. Head, heart, and hand was referring to the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. I will have to keep these three in mind when I am writing my objectives for my lesson plans and curriculum. I also loved this because I can use this as a pneumatic device to always remember to use this throughout my lesson planning and curriculum planning. Another aspect that went along with the hand. heart, and head was the spiral curriculum. This starts in the younger grades, then my job as a middle school teacher is to reinforce the spiral curriculum.
The third thing that really struck me was the phases of pedagogical reasoning. There are six different phases that are discussed and articulated. These will certainly be important for me to keep in mind while I am creating my lesson plans for my middle school classroom. This is because these phases will help me not only make sure my lessons are prepared well, but also implemented well. These phases will also insure that my middle level learners will benefit the most from my lessons. I know I will benefit greatly from these phases so to help me always remember I will have my own personal copy to ensure that I always use these phases when doing my planning,
The fourth thing that I really took away from this chapter is the three different approaches to curriculum. These also go off of head, heart, and hands. The first approach is the knowledge approach.The second approach is society approach, The third approach is the learner centered approach. I personally believe with my teaching philosophy that I will be using the learner centered approach. This is because I believe that especially with middle level learners that I need to center what I teach around them, and that I need to be a facilitator or partner in their learning. I also believe that by using this approach, my students will benefit by them feeling like their voices are being heard because I will be implementing their ideas into the lessons I plan.
A fifth thing that I thought the authors did a great job discussing is the whole textbook versus no textbook. I truly believe that with all of the technological advances and changes that have taken place that the authors are right in saying that we might see hard copy textbooks go extinct. I think this is especially in the middle schools because of how much technology adolescence know how to operate.
Overall, this chapter has so many good points that I could talk about, but I decided only to list a few out of those many good points and tips. , It also had so many great definitions of words that have to do with lesson planning and the curriculum that were great refreshers for me so that I can remember to incorporate them all into my curriculum and lesson planning. I look forward to reading the rest of these chapters and implementing these tips and facts into my curriculum!
Madison,
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you talked about the Head-Heart-Hands (HHH) approach and how it is has other sub-related meaning. I too also talked about the HHHs in my blog post as well. However I did not touch on all the sub-related approaches to this analogy. I remember in the video how Dr. Cantu talked about the "Knowledge, Society, Learner center approaches" Out of all of these I specifically like the society centered one, because I took my Social Studies Methods course in the spring and we spent a lot of time talking about how important the world existing outside the school walls is. How it is important to incorporate them into our classroom but also how we teach our students about those outside our classroom and how they (the students) will become one of them (living in the really world). How it is our job as teachers to build proper, well-educated citizens that will be living and making up part of our society.
I am sure you will do an excellent job incorporating the Head-Heart-Hands in our future lessons with your future students. :)
Hi Madison! I liked that you focused a lot on the different learning domains, because that was definitely a prominent, lengthy (for good reason) section. I liked the way it was written, and I liked that examples were given for each one. I kind of wish I could keep this textbook because it has so much great information in it! All 3 types of learning are definitely important to incorporate into all lesson plans to help develop a more well-rounded student and person overall, and using all the types of verbs, at all different levels (depending on the student) will help meet all kinds of challenges that students might have, and it will definitely help in individualizing lessons and activities based on skill level!
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