Challenge Based Learning vs Culturally Responsive Teaching will not influence my research design as much as it will influence how I plan lessons and units to bring relevance and culture from world concepts to the students in my classroom in each of the Language Arts Units that I teach. I feel like the Benchmarks curriculum in the NVUSD really lends itself to thinking globally and having action plans for local solutions. As we learn about various teaching methods and strategies I have often thought about how the units in this program are easily accessible to students to bring it into Challenge Based Learning.
I liked how Flipped Teaching is what we have been practicing in this class and gives time to process the information and let it sink in and blog about it before we chat about it in class. This could be very helpful to students that need time to watch a video or media more than once, or need time for looking up any unknown vocabulary words or write down any questions that they have in mind. I do think that at the high school level it would be very beneficial being that all students have devices; however, when it comes to elementary school students, many of them do not have devices or internet at home and would not be able to watch or preview the lesson or material. These would happen to be the students that would need the pre-lesson and the extra time with the vocabulary and material the most. I am sure that there are some options around it, but without all students having a device yet it could be problematic to require this beforehand due to equity. I did enjoy that Dan Pink's research explored motivation and drive towards education that was more meaningful. The blurb about it inspired me to order the book, "Drive". It was fascinating to me when he talked about the working memory, especially after reading the chapters on Memory, in the "Brain Rules" book. I felt so much better about getting the information to stick, being that 90% of the research shows that it doesn't go to the long term memory unless their is a lot of repetition and work with the material that will help one remember and process it into the long term memory. Engagement had so much to do with all of the concepts of Flipped Teaching, Challenged Based Learning and Culturally Responsive Teaching. This whole semester has helped me to reflect on why I wanted to become a teacher to begin with. First, I had a fantastically fun teacher that always made learning fun and engaging with games and activities. This was when I decided that I wanted all teachers to be fun and that all learning should be engaging and fun. That was in the 8th grade. Since then, I seem to have lost my way. Somewhere with all of the standards and curriculum changes I forgot that learning always took place when I was having fun or looking forward to class. This class has reminded me of what got me to classes and what got me interested in what I was learning. Today, kids need variation and technology is one of those variations that makes activities fun and relevant to their lives. We all get bored with the same ole same ole routine learning and that's when we mentally check out and stare off into space, no matter what grade level we are suppose to be learning at. Challenge Based Learning also showed...
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Caitlin Mitchell
11/17/2018 12:21:43 pm
HI Monica!
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Jona Sandau
11/17/2018 04:51:09 pm
Monica,
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Tess Giner
11/17/2018 10:30:03 pm
I'm with you. CBL will not change my action research study, but it WILL change my classroom practices. For too long, I've wondered on how to make my assignments more meaningful. I think this is it.
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Brandon DeJesus
11/19/2018 07:54:38 pm
I love your point that a flipped classroom affords students a lot of time to consume the lesson as many times as they need to in order for it to sink in. I think about my students who wish they could slow my lectures down or rewind an explanation/example but are too nervous to ask in front of the class. This would be the perfect solution to their confusion.
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Author: Monica D KnechtI am a teacher in NVUSD. It is my 12th year teaching and currently working as a TOSA as a Reading Specialist. Archives
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