Module 5 activity 2

For this activity it took me a while before deciding which educational software I should share with my colleagues because of the wide range of of sites that I access from time to time. I personally believe that funbrain.com is one of the very best site on the internet which cause a positive change in the learning and understanding of students.

Module 5 activity 3

This was an interesting activity because normally, when I search for a site to use I would mainly check whether it has the content which I am looking for and whether it has catchy graphics which won't easily bored the students. On completing this activity, I realized that more thought is need when selected sites and software in general to suppose teaching and learning in my classroom.

Module 5 activity 1

This is my first time using this website to as a record keeping tool of the sites that I've visited and or used within my classroom. Matter of fact I've never used or heard of Diigo. Normally when find a site which is ideal or relative to my classroom activity I would use the browser's bookmarking feature. I think that this would really help me in organizing my online material in the future.

Activity 11: Encouraging Learners to ask questions

In most classroom setting, the teacher is the one who mainly ask the questions. The only time students are actually given the opportunity to talk or respond, it's when the teacher check for students understanding.This activity students ability to formal questions which they need answered. This also prompts students to think about what they want answered. Before they can ask their questions they must ensure that they are clear and straight to the point.

Activity 12: Problem Solving Strategies

Problem solving skills really need improvement in my class so this activity was useful with giving me an idea as to how promote problem solving skills among students.

Activity 10: Promoting Discussion

At the end of this activity i was taught that through the use of discussion it  is an excellent method which can be used to develop and foster my student's oral communication skills as well as their ability to think out side of the box.

Activity 9: What questions do I ask and why

Questioning indeed helps me to find out students reasoning and comprehension ability. I have always tried to include different types of questions in my lessons to encourage students to critically think about information/questions that are  presented. It is important that as a teacher our questions are pitched at various levels of the blooms taxonomy. I realized that using the taxonomy helps to better focus the questions to be asked and in term it would assist in getting the desired results from the students.

Activity 8: Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

This activity show me how much we would have already been practicing Piaget's theory without realizing it.

It was a firm reminder that even thought students may be within the same age group they are not developing at the same cognitive speed and the use of differentiation is vitally important to bridge the gap which may exist among students at the same grade level.

Activity 7:Collobarative Learning

Cooperative is something that a promote regularly in my classroom to provide students with the opportunity to interact and learn from their peers

Activity 6: Vygotsky- Understandingof Cognitive Development

Social interaction and learning are like two peas in a pod.They support each other, especially in the classroom. I realized that sometimes we under estimate our students ability to express themselves. This activity help to realize that students it is important for students to be activity disseminator to knowledge throughout the learning process. I have taken into consideration my students during my planning process since learning it a two way street.

Activity 5: Developmental Psychology

This activity reminded me of how much a learner's environment can affect his/ her life as well as performance within the school arena. Whenever children lack emotional, social,psycho-social support these can seriously affect a student academic performance. In addition, when a child is expose to an unhealthy environment  which there is no educational or moral support from there parent ot guardian these can cause students to have difficulty in learning, this can also lead to further behavioural problems which may be difficult to curb since students may feel demotivated and have a very low self esteem.

Activity 4: Behaviourism

Praise, encouragement and positive feedback is vitally important in our classroom. it can make a difference in children learning. As I reflected on my use of  praise, encouragement and positive feedback  my students had a positive reaction to classroom activities. Positive reinforcement indeed boosted some students self confidence and impacted how often they would respond to a question which might be asked; it was seen generally classroom activities.

Module 1 activity 2-self activity

I now realized that learners need to learn how to learn. I realized that if learners are  interested in the material and are working with the material  such as revising the material they are expected to learn it will make it easier for them  to access the material from their long term memory. I understand that learners need to develop strategies for learning and that some strategies can be ineffective for some learners.Teachers therefore need to help students develop a strategy based on their(the students) learning styles that will help them learn the material. Students will be expected to monitor and modify their strategies

Activity 3:Social Cognitive Theory

This activity helped me to be aware of some the behaviours that we are required to model to our students on daily basis.This activity helped become vigilant of the types of positive behaviours I wish for my students to adopt. From simple everyday social graces with are important for students to emulate. Even more importantly the behaviours which i wish to enforce in the classroom such as taking turns while speaking and raising one's hand if they wish to speak.