Cooperative learning

The most effective professional session that I attended was ten hour multiday training session on Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategies. These sessions were led by two Kagan coaches who presented their material to classroom teachers, specials teachers, and related service providers. This session was effective because the session leader provided activities that were engaging for everyone that was in attendance. The session leader also provided modeling of how to use the strategies. She also made…

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence provides teachers with creative learning opportunities for students. I decided to use four out of the eight Multiple Intelligences to help enhance each student’s mind on the universe. This not only makes learning fun, but it also helps students relate to the content by physically doing activities they enjoy, such as playing in the classroom, writing letters, and drawing…

doesn’t exist for the time being. Play is also universal due to it being know in every country and continent on this planet. Children use this as a release just as adults use other activities as a form of release. This also helps with development of learning skills due to the child interacting with other kids, the child is bound to learn something may it be a word, a skill, or a gesture. Its all a part of the psychological development of the child. We all play and we all go through the same 5…

LEARNING OBJECTIVES As an applied statistics major pursuing a career in the financial industry, the cooperative education I am receiving as the accounting intern for the City of Dearborn Recreation Department is of tremendous value. I will be working directly with the Recreation accountant, but I will also gain experience in the bookkeeping work and help to develop more internal controls. Not only will the experience in the field of accounting provide me with knowledge of finance, but the…

1. Identify the principles of differentiated instruction. Differentiated instruction involves using different types of instruction and learning strategies to meet the needs of students with different learning needs. Every student is unique and not all students learn the same way, that is why it is important for teachers to use differentiated instruction in both the general education and inclusive classroom. There are different principles that guide planning and implementing differentiated…

Vygotsky considered social interactions to be very important for the children development. From my observation of my students when they work together most of them enjoy the learning process more and they become more confident and responsible. Also these cooperative activities will help in their cognitive development. Yet it is important to let them understand that there is always something that you are not competent in and needs help with and something that you are…

preschool educational stage to develop physically socially and emotionally, allowing children to develop social interaction with their peer and caregivers(Townsend, Mayekiso & Ntshangase, 2016 p.73). However, the essence of play comprehends elements of learning, open-mindedness, long-term memory and the ability to grow in a more interactive manner that also grooms them to identifying between what's wrong and right as well as sharing with other children (Gregorc & Mesko, 2016 p.20). Thus this…

Children can engage in roll play together with established expectations and rules. This means of cooperative play engages children’s self-regulation and reasoning while enhancing socio-emotional development (Dewar, 2008). This particular feature of the playground is also handicap accessible for children who cannot function at the same level of physical…

“Learning is what you do when you don’t know what to do”, (Claxton, 1999, as cited in Fraser, 2012, p.22). However, as anybody knows, learning is not linear, nor do two people learn at the same pace in the same way and their learning never ends. That includes teachers. We bring our own life experiences to the classroom, involving philosophies about teaching alongside the theoretical beliefs. These beliefs have implications on how teachers view their role in the classroom, how they manage their…

After giving and discussing the lesson with the class. I will show the students a video giving different reasons of what causes global climate change. In order to assure active learning of lower level students, I will assign the students an activity where they sit in groups of four. The four students in each group have to create two collages, one for natural causes and one for human causes, and give five statements on each collage of why global warming is a natural cause or a human cause. Two…