Teaching and Learning
What was the hardest thing about teaching during the first semester.
The thought that most of my students were older than me and may not want to listen to me.
One quality i learned as an LA this semester
One quality i've developed would be patience.
"How the Brain Learns"
This reading Taught me that students are way more likely to remember a curriculum that they have an emotional attachment to.
What I learned about teaching.
One thing I learned is that teaching isn't so much about teaching students what you've learned, then it is about, learning how the students learn.
How to encourage a discouraged student?
Determine/Help students develop a "growth mindset"
"Defining productive group work"
Taught me about the stages of teen development: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.
How Are teaching and learning connected?
The primary goal of teaching is to impart knowledge and to monitor change in behavior while learning is to understand and apply knowledge.
How to evaluate student comprehension?
Ask student a series of questions to help stimulate their recall and critical thinking.
"introducing metacognition"
metacognition refers to ones knowledge concerning ones own cognitive processes or anything related to them. It includes the awareness or analysis of ones own learning or thinking process.