So What? Write a few robust, detailed paragraphs about how your personal learning theory will translate into instructional strategies. For example, if you believe that learning is a process and that students learn through active exploration, then you will design complex learning environments in which students can experiment and discover concepts rather than lecturing incessantly.
Now What? What are your "fierce wonderings"? What aspect of teaching or Educational Psychology are you super excited to learn more about?
My original definition of learning was that "Learning is a continual, active process made possible by new experiences, or new ways of looking at old experiences." and I still agree with that, but I would now add that you have to constantly add on to what you have previously learned to keep from forgetting. And that you have to be able to apply it to a worthwhile aspect for it to maintain relevance. In my future classroom, I want to be able to see a permanent change in my students that proves to me that they have learned something. It could be something as small as using scientific reasoning when confronted with something scientifically incorrect on the internet, or using some class vocabulary in real life, or ideally, they start recycling or doing something to benefit the world because of content we have covered in my class. Based on that, I have a pretty behaviorist idea of what learning is, but it is the constructivist ideas that really excite me the most. I want to use a bunch of the models we discussed in this class, and in curriculum, in my future class. I love how diverse they are, while all being student centered. It was lessons like this that were most impactful to me when I was in school. Like I mentioned before, I would really love to have my students do a service-learning project that deals with my content because it would be educational, exciting, applicable to real-life, and it would be a great thing for my students to put on resumes. I would probably use the service-learning as an alternative to a more practical project since service-learning projects would be pretty impractical, and biased. I think I would have at least a few students who would be interested in a service-learning alternative though, it would be awesome!
Overall, this class was a lot more interesting and useful than I had anticipated it would be. I hadn't thought it would really be useful to me, just be some little tidbits of information that wouldn't actually impact my future class. But, the theories we have talked about are actually really important to know so that I can know how best to reach my students, and how to engage them in my class.
My original definition of learning was that "Learning is a continual, active process made possible by new experiences, or new ways of looking at old experiences." and I still agree with that, but I would now add that you have to constantly add on to what you have previously learned to keep from forgetting. And that you have to be able to apply it to a worthwhile aspect for it to maintain relevance. In my future classroom, I want to be able to see a permanent change in my students that proves to me that they have learned something. It could be something as small as using scientific reasoning when confronted with something scientifically incorrect on the internet, or using some class vocabulary in real life, or ideally, they start recycling or doing something to benefit the world because of content we have covered in my class. Based on that, I have a pretty behaviorist idea of what learning is, but it is the constructivist ideas that really excite me the most. I want to use a bunch of the models we discussed in this class, and in curriculum, in my future class. I love how diverse they are, while all being student centered. It was lessons like this that were most impactful to me when I was in school. Like I mentioned before, I would really love to have my students do a service-learning project that deals with my content because it would be educational, exciting, applicable to real-life, and it would be a great thing for my students to put on resumes. I would probably use the service-learning as an alternative to a more practical project since service-learning projects would be pretty impractical, and biased. I think I would have at least a few students who would be interested in a service-learning alternative though, it would be awesome!
Overall, this class was a lot more interesting and useful than I had anticipated it would be. I hadn't thought it would really be useful to me, just be some little tidbits of information that wouldn't actually impact my future class. But, the theories we have talked about are actually really important to know so that I can know how best to reach my students, and how to engage them in my class.
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