Author: Vickie
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JBMS STUDY GUIDE FOR REFRACTION QUIZ
1. Light travels in a straight line. What is the evidence for this? You cannot see around a corner! You only see something when the light that bounces off an object reaches your eye. You must be in the direct line of sight in order for them to reach your eye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwK78F_4eA for more information.…
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why group-work is essential for learning
These children are engaged in what developmental psychologist Barbara Rogoff calls “intent participation.” Each group is learning to perform an engineering task with no teacher. The girls at upper left are constructing a book support out of newspapers and masking tape. The other two groups are constructing parachutes out of coffee filters. None of…
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So many children…
I’m going to be a little poetic here. By which I mean turning my attention to that which is not tangible. I have the opportunity right now to work one-on-one with several children. It’s a chance to go back to basics: children want love, acceptance, security. They want to find out about the world, while…
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Place-based teacher education
Critical Place-Based Teacher Education In the current climate of accountability and standardization in (teacher) education, the prospect of PBE taking root seems preposterous. And Dr. D. does not suggest that this particular foray into PBE is exemplary. The process of participating in the research, both by observing in classrooms in a focused and local way…
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reflection on today’s science and math pedagogy class
For the last 6 weeks I’ve been teaching a 6-hour face to face class on Saturdays to a group of pre-service teachers in an MAT program and in-service teachers getting advanced degrees. This has been brutal for everyone concerned, to say the least. I’ve had to pare down my expectations because after about 4 hours…
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learning through discussion. what does it mean?
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a week or so. I had occasion recently to visit a student teacher in a 7th grade life science class. The topic for the day was sexual and asexual reproduction. The lesson started out with a Brain Pop video. The plan was for a “class discussion” and…
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What is teaching? What is online teaching?
The other day someone asked me to provide an example of my “online teaching.” I explained some of the online assignments I’ve given, but the person continued, “No, I mean teaching.” It took me a few seconds to comprehend the question, that she was asking if I put my lectures online, or annotated videos. I…