2013 Teacher Academy Class! We finally made it! All went well as I expected it to be. The course was fun and it taught me a lot about the field of education. It made me realize that I really do want to be a teacher. My experiences learning the new information in class was helpful when I was at the field doing work. I see my mentor using some of the information that I have learned in class. My student teaching was a great 2 or 3 months? :D It was great working with the kids and the kids would always greet me and talk to me if anything came up. The relationship that I built with the students will be something I won't be able to forget and that is what I will take in my classroom. No downfalls really, everything went well. The program is really good Mrs. Torres. You are a great teacher and you will be remembered in my books. You made me realize what I wanted to do after high school and that is to pursue a teaching career. Any last words? I will miss the class and all the memories we've made together! I will also miss you Mrs. Torres and of course I thank you and deeply appreciate what you have done for us throughout the course. Thanks Mrs. Torres!

Love,

Shawn Kleine Escalada (:

Teaching Experience.

       In addition, create a new post on your blogger about your experience so far with your student teaching. What has improved, did you see any self-growth? What have you applied from what you learned in this class? Is there anything new that your mentor teacher learned from you? What new TECH resources can you introduce to him/her in the next month that will be useful in the class?

        My experiences in student teaching is awesome. I have experienced how it feels to be behind the teacher seeing her style of teaching. I was  very shy when I first started with the students but what I have realized was that they were way more afraid to talk to me than I was to them. As a few days past, a few students started to greet me every morning with bright smiles and awesome hi fives! I got closer to the students as weeks went by. I also love the safe environment that the students are in and how organized the class schedule is. I can say that I have seen a little improvement in myself when interacting with students and getting to talk to the mentor. It is good to have a good connection with the mentor because they can teach you valuable things that can be useful later on when your teacher career begins. I have applied the basics I guess just on how to talk to students and interact with them easily. I get along with all the students and some students are attached to me as well at times. My mentor teacher has learned that I can relate easily with others but it takes time for me to open up and really interact with the students without being shy. I've learned to use proper language and talk to the students in an appropriate manner. It's not about my mentor learning anything about me but me learning everything my mentor has to offer. I can't think of any new tech resources that the class can use but I think showing the students powerpoints, prezzi or any other program to enhance the students learning. 

CITW Strategies

Similarities and Differences 

The following are four ways in finding similarities and differences between two likely or unlikely subjects. These would be comparing, classifying, crating metaphors and creating analogies. Being able to use these strategies will benefit the student's way in thinking in a more advanced way. This strategy is effective because it lets the student think over the basic. It is what lets the student think differently from others. Some students may see some differences and others may not. 

Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

Setting objectives is an effective way to get the student on task when the student knows exactly what they have to know. Writing objectives help the students understand the lesson because it focuses on the main point of the lesson. It is an effective way to get the students on task as soon as class starts by seeing the objectives on the board. Providing feedback is important because students would usually want to know what they have to improve on but while giving feedback in a positive way. It is best to give positive feedback to the students because it will encourage them to do better rather than give out negative feedback that would put the student down. 

Reinforcing Effort and Recognition

Motivating students is the best way to get the student to want more out of what they are learning. The student's strive is one of the most valuable attributes in a student that could determine their success. I feel that teachers should always encourage their students to do their best in everything they do. Recognizing the students work gives them the encouragement to do their best so that they could be recognized again because feeling recognized feels good. Making the learning area a positive learning environment is important because we want students to feel comfortable to learn.

CITW Strategies II

Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers 

      The importance on this strategies is to get the student prepared for upcoming work. Cues help prepare the student for the upcoming lesson. It teaches the students what they already know and provide new information on the topic. Questions are what allow students to access previously learned information on a topic and is used to check on what the students already have a little knowledge on. Advance organizers are used to help students use their prior knowledge to learn new information.These are usually brought up in the beginning of the lesson to draw the attention of the student to identify the main points of the lessson. This was my presentation and I think we got the message across the room on the importance and the effectiveness of this strategy. 

Cooperative Learning

The importance of this strategy is to get students to work in groups to accomplish a certain task given by the teacher. This can help develop team building skills and leadership skills as well. Cooperative Learning can help students reflect on newly acquired knowledge and share with the rest of the group on their perspective. This strategy is effective because most students would rather learn the material as a group rather alone having a difficult time understanding the content. The activity was writing an autobiography poem. It was a fun activity and it helps us know each other more.

Non-Linguistic  Representation .

The importance of this strategy is about imagery. Imagery is expressed as mental pictures or physical sensation. Physical sensations include the five senses. This strategy helps students learn with use of visual aids such as pictures. This can be useful to students in the future because the picture in their mind will remind them of what they have covered over the lesson. Some ways that non-linguistic representation is used is by: Graphic organizers, Make physical models or manipulatives, Generate mental pictures, Create pictures, illustrations, and pictographs, Engage in kinesthetic activities.

Top 10 uses on Twitter in education.

1. Let assignments be thoroughly 21st century. Instead of requiring a paper for a course, why not an interactive digital project? Or one that makes use of Twitter?
2. Students. If your students follow you, follow them back. You may inspire them to pursue career goals or build a strong mentor-mentee relationship
3. Professional organizations. Many professional organizations, even those for academics, have Twitter feeds that are well worth following.
4. Share what you’re reading. Taking on the latest academic journal? Found an amazing article in pop-science about your research field? Share it! If it’s interesting, it’ll probably get retweeted and passed around, and you might just interest a student or two to boot.
5. Tweet regularly. Twitter isn’t going to do you much good if you don’t ever use it. Develop a regular tweeting schedule both for yourself and for your courses that use Twitter.
6. Have a Twitter account for each class. In order to keep things from getting confusing, your best bet is to create a unique Twitter account for each of the courses you teach.
7. Ask questions relevant to course material. A daily question on your Twitter feed that’s pertinent to current course material can help to get students thinking.
8. Cross-classroom collaboration. Why work alone when you can connect with other college classrooms? That’s just what many college classes are doing these days
9. Professional organizations. Many professional organizations, even those for academics, have Twitter feeds that are well worth following.
10. Find support. We all need support in our jobs, even if we’re really good at them. Twitter is a great place to look if you’re having “one of those days.”

I chose to follow edmodo because it is a social learning platform for both students and teachers. 

I also followed studentteacherprobs because they post on problems and how to overcome them.

Lastly, I followed Ed Week Teacher because they have the latest post on recent developments in education. 

My observation on Bloom.

The teacher that I was assigned to was Ms. Reyphand of the 3rd grade. She was a really kind woman and she has her way of teaching and different beliefs in being a successful teacher. Her class conisted with a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and they had the motivation to learn and the readiness to get class started. The students already know the routine when you get into class; sit down, be quiet, wait for instructions. The children did so but we all know there will always be a few students who don't comprehend easily but she could easily get them to hurry up. That would show cognitive behavior towards the students. The easiest to spot was the affective learning because of how the students would be confindent in spelling a word. They would all raise their hands to spell the word and they wouldn't be shy of it. The last of the domain I didn't see because the students were sitting the whole time and weren't able to move around to do any physical activites.

Experience with Bloom.

Who: Benjamin Bloom
What: Taxonomy of Learning Domains
Where: Some Colleges
When: 1956

This article on Bloom's Taxonomy is mainly about the three types of learning which are Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. The Cognitive Domain is the domain in which a person's learning deals with more of the mental skills. They broke down the Cognitive Domain to six categories; knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This domain involves knowledge and intellectual skills. As you start from the first category, you will soon progress to the next category in which it can be easily seen as going to the next level every time one is mastered. The next domain, would be the Affective domain in which a person's learning deals more on the growth of feeling and in the emotional areas. There are five different categories in this domain; receiving phenomena, responding to phenomena, valuing, organization, internalizing values. The Psychomotor Domain is the last of the domains. This domain is mainly on the motor skills and the physical areas. This domain is broken down into seven categories; perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaptation, origination. These types of learing is used in our daily lives without us knowing it. If I had never read this article, I wouldn't be educated on this topic and unaware that everything I do deals with Bloom's Taxonomy.

The experiences that I had with Blooms Taxanomy can be seen in multiple activities conducted during class. Many of our activities involve the use of physical skills, mental skills, and the use of skills in the emotional areas. The three types of learning is commonly used in our daily lives. One example of an activity that deals with physical skill would be in a PE class where everyone is active and moving. That would fall under the Psychomotor Domain. Where as a english class deals with more on the mental skills i.e Jeopardy. That would fall under the Cognitive Domain. Even as simple as class discussions. That would fall under the Affective Domain.