January 20th-23rd, 2015

Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Today, we discussed our plans for the upcoming weeks, and talked about how amazing the conference was on Friday! Hannah Trammell presented her blog, as well as her midterm project, sharing about ADD and ADHD. She told us of her personal experience with it, and shared statistics & other information on the topic. Then, we learned a little about ActivExpression technology, and used them to answer yes/no questions about debatable issues in education (giving birth control at school, sex education required from elementary to high school, grouping of classes according to academic abilities). We had a good time sharing our opinions on these topics!

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
Today, we presented our timelines about social, technological, and education changes from the 1960s to now. The timelines had many unique backgrounds, such as lunch containers, televisions, and devices used to play music. The projects were used to sum up the infromation we collected in our interviews over Christmas break. Then, Mrs. Turner introduced the peer lesson project, and explained a little about what that would entail.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
Today, we discussed our peer lesson assignments, and clarified some important points on those. Then we talked through our homework from the night before. We shared our learning style results and discussed how to cater to those needs. On the multiple intelligences test, we shared  what surprised us about our results. We also discussed Bloom's Taxonomy (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create) and its use in class! Mrs Turner read "The Dot" to us, and we used the story for example questions and tasks as we went through our Bloom's Taxonomy handouts! We were then told to come up with a question from each level of Bloom's Taxonomy for a book we read as our homework.

Friday, January 23rd, 2015
Today, we recognized our Teaching Fellows finalists (who are AMAZING). Then, we all chose a book to read and took the test that another student created for it, using Bloom's Taxonomy! We returned the test to the creator, and they graded it. After we had finished, Mrs Turner told us about different lesson plans for our field experience. We also signed up for our peer lesson dates.

Amber, Abby, Hannah, Tamara, Hannah, Ashlyn

"The giving of love is an education in itself." -Eleanor Roosevelt