Tacit knowledge

Goal 1: In goal 1, I plan to use a variety of prompts to challenge students to think at an advanced level. My goals is for students to develop high level questions, challenge the thinking of others and make positive contributions to the group. Sometime during the first semester, I read an article about the use of Bloom’s Questioning Stems in the classroom. I also went to a conference on differentiation that also presented information about using Bloom’s Taxonomy with students. What was…

Literacy personally, is not just the basic understanding of reading and writing. It is the ability to be knowledgeable in a subject or concept, and be able to understand it. It is being able to apply the things that you have learned into real life situations. It’s analyzing something and being able to interpret it into something more meaningful. It is more than just books and readings, but everyday things that people might encounter. The value that literacy holds is immense. It can be…

Is ignorance bliss? Or is it actually reason for concern? I definitely believe that a high level of ignorance can be quite dangerous. The novel “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne gives many examples of the dangers that may come with ignorance, in ways such as being ignorant towards someone’s feelings, the ignorance shown in terrorist acts and the simple yet often life-threatening ignorance that often occurs with children. One of the most common forms of ignorance is something that is…

Cumulatively, my life experiences and challenges have helped me develop good nurturing instincts and an ability to recognize others in need of help. At the same time, I have also developed an intense intellectual curiosity about the human mind and the way that trauma alters the perspective of the individual. I realize that to a large extent, understanding those processes has helped me come to terms with some of my experiences better than I could have without that conceptual understanding. Those…

An interesting thing happened in a class. A student complained the professor when he focused ‘on the beauty of the language and the splendor of the imagery when lecturing on the text.’ He did not notice her feelings, and the girl did not feel safe in the class. That story leads to a discussion about whether professors use trigger warnings on their course materials or not. Then what is “trigger warnings”?---Seen on the web, in tweets and on blogs, it usually takes the form of a sentence or a few…

Learning is different for many people. For me, learning for learning's sake is the only way that children can actually push themselves to learn new information and find out what they love doing. Being able to learn at a young age in school is such an important trait to have. It allows students to be able to push themselves in the future to be able to do exceptional at their classwork and be able to find out what they love to do. Our educational system is flawed in this way, we just don’t let…

to the light, which is symbolic of the quest for education and knowledge. The allegory attempts to equate the prisoner’s emergence from the cave as the transition from understanding sensible reality towards the realm of forms; this realm is comprised of objects and ideals such as Truth and Justice in their most perfect and definite form. In this essay I shall argue that the allegory of the cave advances Plato’s’ argument of knowledge being the key to…

By observing the children you are able to conclude what resources are being used the most and what aren’t being used as much. This would allow you to then come up with ideas of what needs to be improved or changed in certain areas of the environment to maximise the children’s learning experiences. • During transition. Observations are used during transitions to make sure the children are not frightened or worried when they experience a change and are fully prepared and happy to welcome the…

The two assessments that measure early literacy skills for students in grades K-2 are Early Literacy Skills Assessment (ELSA) by High/Scope and the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA). The ELSA evaluates his or her understanding, “phonological awareness, the alphabet principle, and concepts (DeBruin-Parecki, 2005).” This process consists of three separate forms that are to be completed by the assessor throughout several evaluation activities. The first form is completed during a…

Both Plato and Cornel West demonstrate important ways of teaching a student how to think in a similar way. One way being how being wrong can be beneficial throughout their stories the “Apology” and “On My Intellectual Vacation.” In Cornel West “On My Intellectual Vacation” When he notions towards being wrong is beneficial on page 24 “In other words it is not a matter of pointing fingers or calling name, but really showing that you are in the very mess that you are trying to grasp. Moreover…