http://beyond-school.org/

This looked to be an intriguing blog and was under the best teachers blogs section, but I don't understand why? This was not a good display of a good teacher.  I was very interested to read about a teacher that was abroad, but it wasn't very informative about his students and teaching styles. I learned that people in Korea keep their cars in neutral so that people can move them due to the lack of parking spaces there. The sex scene was a little much. I don't understand why he was in the best teachers category, but maybe if i went further into reading the blog it might have gone further in-depth into his teaching practices over seas. I wash very interested on how to make my blog look more like a website!

QR Fires Chapter 2

1. "If your looking for respect ..." (page 19) this is a great way to find it.

2. This chapter broke down the teachers handbook designed by students. Confidence, comfort, and respect are key with a student-teacher relationship. This chapter states a lot of guidlines that should be common sense and are the reasons why we become teachers, to give students a fun, comfortable learning atmosphere, but some teachers loose sight of these objectives throughout the years.

QR Fires Chapter 1

1. "Getting to know us doesn't happen all at once" (page 3). The students express in this chapter how they want teachers to get to know them. Also when they discuss how nothing opens the eyes of a teacher to the lives of students more than taking the time to see where the live and what they go through each day wether their in the ritzy area or the slums.

2. This chapter was a good look into how personal students may want their teacher student relationship to go and where the line is drawn. These students give some good ideas as to how to go about getting some information so that the teacher can understand what they go through day to day and how to plan homework around that. These kids want teachers to know the general gist about their students lives and interests so that they can relate things to their interests. Also this information goes into how the students want homework where they can apply their interest to it. 

Type I and Type II Technology MEL

Type I

1. The computer class that I had in middle school that taught us the 'proper' way of typing.
2. Teachers before a big project will always bring their class to the library to go over how to research topic on the computer. I feel like I got brought to the library so many times from the same power point and speech through out middle school and high school on basically how to use the internet and a search engine.
3.  Teachers always seem to go over format for papers and styles every time that they assign a paper in class, even after their paper format has previously been stated for other papers. 

Type II

1. In my Geo in Education class we explored different ways to make maps, add trails, bring in our GPS information and apply it to arial photo's. It was a nice way to use the computers to get us involved in mapping.
2. Also in Geo class we looked at lesson plans on Nationalgeographic.com and they had a lot of interactive website incorporated into their lesson plans, such as virtual tours and interactive maps. 
3. When a teacher introduces a new program to the class, like iMovie, and has the class to projects that relate to the class objective with a new program. For one of my history classes, America since 1945 with O'Brien, we made a documentary in the class with a focus covering the outlined time period. All the pictures and information was researched and presented by us.

Maddux, Cleborne D., and D. LaMont Johnson. "Introduction: Type II Applications of Technology in Education: New and Better Ways of Teaching and Learning." Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education. 1-5.

My MEL experiences

1. The research presented in this article was different than the normal learning results reading I have been assigned to. Normally researchers write documents on what they think will work based on research they have done or statistics they have compiled, but this article was core evidence with the students voices expressed through out from a local area. 

2. This article presented some good examples of questions that one, as a teacher, can ask to really get to know their students and how they learn. It also encourages to help students learn what type of learning style they are by doing activities like we did in Dr. Graces class. This article showed that it's good to really listen to ones students and get the feel for how they learn. Hands-on activities and other projects that are open ended where the kids can add their own learning style is shown to be very useful and desired by the students. It reminds us to not loose sight of our students and their feelings, to relate things to their life, and to make sure they are comprehending what we are telling them; to actually make sure we're teaching them.

Dr. Theresa MEL (1-3)

Kaisha Dunne

Step 1:

How much of their information seems plausible to you?

1. • Visual: Was my number one choice in our activity in Dr. Graces class. I am a visual person and like to be able to see things so that latter it can jog my memory. If I use visual aids in my classroom students are going to be more intrigued by what i am talking about and it will be more engraved into their memory rather than me standing at the front of the class and talking about a topic with no visual aids. Also if the students make a visual to go along with what they are doing it gives them something to also use as a memory recall.

• Aural: The use of music is a good way to keep the students focus and also a good memory jogger. If I was teaching the civil rights movement in a class, for an example, I could tie in music from that era to be able to express the feelings of the people and move students; some may recognize the music and be more fascinated by it. I took a class freshman year here on The Songs of Bob Dylan and I was excited to do my reading; I want my kids to be excited as well. Music is a good thing to incorporate in a classroom and isn’t used as often in secondary education anymore.

• Verbal: Verbal learning is the bases of a classroom.. no verbal communication is not an option. I feel like i would be able to easily incorporate this in a fun structured way wether in a game like jeopardy with the topic of the lesson or little sayings, clues or other hints to help the students memorize things. 

• Physical: I have ADD and I know how hard it is to sit still or when a teacher yells at a student for doodling and thats how sometimes they are going to focus their best that day. Getting students up and moving and interacting with things is a great way to get them involved in their work. In my classroom I feel like a good way to break down the big topics in history is to break kids into groups and have them come together in the end to collaborate because the load can tend to be big and boring to a lot of students at times. Even a little movement can help keep the kids more awake and motivated, followed by a higher rate of kids feeling like their in a fun, interactive and comfortable environment. 

• Logical: Analyzing data and taking a very in-depth look into things is good to deepen the students knowledge and make them more rounded, but at the same time you don’t want to bore them. As a teacher your job is to give these kids information and educate them but in order for them to learn you have to get them engaged. 

• Social: Group work, presentations, and performing with and/ or in-front of others is a good exercise for developing communication skills. It’s easy to work in, but it’s just hard to incorporate stuff for the kids who are interpersonal.

2.

Style Scores

Visual

28

Social

20

Physical

18

Aural

14

Verbal

15

Solitary

9

Logical

14

4.? read over

5. 1st choice: Visual 2nd choice: Aural