January 20 - January 22, 2010

Wednesday January 20, 2010

We came back to school from a long 4 day weekend because of MLK day on Monday and a teacher work day on Tuesday. We started the classs by going over what is to happen during the rest of January and then what is going on in February. Mrs. Turner passed out a lesson plan template to everybody and then she went over each part of the template. She then showed us Blooms Taxonomy and explained what each level was. She then read the children's book "Knuffle Bunny Too." She then gave us questions from the story and we had to put them on the correct level of Blooms Taxonomy.

Thursday January 21, 2010

Today we broke into groups with a children's book for each group. The groups task was to read the book and then create a quiz based on the book with questions that covered each level of Blooms Taxonomy. Then the groups were to trade books and questions and the new book you were supose to read and then answer the questions and evalutate the question to see if they truly covered each level of Blooms Taxonomy.

Friday January 22, 2010

Today we began class with Mrs. Turner going through the questions from the group work from the day before. She shared the evaluations of the questions to the class as a whole. Then we broke up into 5 groups and we all were given an article and were told to read the article and each person in the group had to become an expert on that article. Then one person from each group was put into a larger group to create 5 different groups. Each member now was to tell the new group about the article he or she became an expert on. Next we participated in an activity that was math problems and each group had a different problem and we had to figure the problem out then one person who was chosen at random was to answer it. Then Mrs. Turner gave us an oral quiz and the person who would answer it was chosen out of a cup of pop sicle sticks. These group activity gave us examples of possible structures that can be used in a cooperative learning setting.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -Sydney J. Harris

January 4-January 15, 2010

Monday January 4, 2010

We all came back from our wonderful Holiday Break and talked about what all we did. Mrs. Turner told us about everything that was coming up within the next few weeks and there after. We also watched some of the credits for Freedom Writers and talked about writing our letters to our teacher dealing with the seven gifts.

Tuesday January 5, 2010

Today we talked about our Mid-Term that we would have to present for our Professor. We all picked our topics and then began brainstorming our ideas.

Wednesday January 6, 2010

Today we all meet in the classroom and asked any questions about our projects. We then all traveled down the hallway to the library to work on our Mid-Terms.

Thursday January 7, 2010

We went to the library again today all working very hard on our projects.

Friday January 8, 2010

We once again traveled to the library to finish working on our Mid-Term projects that were do the next week.

Monday January 11, 2010

We came to class and some students who are not taking the class for Anderson Uni. presented their Mid-Terms for the class informing all of us about Education related topics.

Tuesday January 12, 2010

Exam time was here... finally. Everyone came with Mid-Terms in hand and we greeted our Professor from Anderson at 8:30 am ready to present. We were in here for 3 hours and everyone taking the class for college credit presented their projects. We all laughed and things going on in Education. Everyone did a great job!

Wednesday January 13-Thurdayday January 14, 2010

We did not come to teacher cadets these days becasue we were in other classes working on our exams.

Friday January 15, 2010

Everyone was so relieved that exams were over and we all were ready for our 4 day weekend! We all worked together and got service hours done and picked our teacher of the month for January.

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." -- John Cotton Dana

NEED EDUCATIONAL ARTICLES?

If you still need to read educational articles this quarter, check out the links on the right column for Edutopia, THE Journal and Teaching Tolerance. Also, I have included links to some on-line articles that I found interesting. Have fun!

Mean Chics and Ugly Cliques

Half a Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Building a New Business Model