Module 1 Activity 6 Reflection

Module 1 Activity 6 Reflection

This activity required me to complete three readings on social of learning, internalization and interactions between speaking and thinking. It also required the group1 participants to work collaboratively on a brainstorm activity in Microsoft Excel by writing at least 5 ways that you can include opportunities for verbalising and dialogue in our teaching and learning situation, and after observing my colleagues responses for some days now I was able to identify responses and record the five most frequent examples shared by my group and they are as follows: debates, dramatizing, discussions, retelling stories and show and tell. This was a very good activity since I get the opportunity to hear my colleagues view points on in verbalizing and dialogue in the classroom.  This can help demonstrate areas of similarity and differences.

Module 1 Activity 5 Reflection

Module 1 Activity 5 Reflection

The reading for this activity was a very enlightening and informative one, it focal point was developmental psychology. I was familiar with some of the material from college while some was useful information that I could utilize in my current teaching profession.

Teachers must therefore constantly familiarize themselves with the various strategies and theories related to how students adapt and change over time whether through their personalities, their physical development cognitive or their language development. Teachers must ensure that they utilize developmentally and individually suitable strategies that take in to account their students learning needs, interest, styles abilities so that their students can reach their full potential. 

Assignment 1 Reflection

Module 1 Assignment 1 Reflection

My assignment was based on the application of two learning theories in my classroom, also it included three of Day and Baskett’s ten guidelines from my teaching experience ,the assignment also look at my most successful moments in teaching and the factors that contribute to these moments finally it looked at one factor presented in the module that  pertains to ICT integration I can that I can apply to my classroom.   Before attempting this assignment I read it on numerous occasions to get the essence.   This assignment was ok in terms of the tasks I had to accomplish and I completed my draft in due time but time almost elapsed with the submission of my assignment to the assessor.  Thank God I beat the clock in time.

Module 1 Activity 4 Reflection

Module 1 Activity 4 Reflection

The Powerful lesson about Operant Conditioning that I have learned from the reading is that both humans and animals are active or operant in their surroundings.  It was discovered that Students are likely to do display behaviours more frequently when the behaviour is praised or reinforced.   

Sometimes we observed students displaying certain behaviours and we wonder what is happening, and in most cases it boils down to the home, in these cases it is our duty and responsibility to divert students to more acceptable alternative behaviour through positive reinforcement example token and stamps.  When the students with behavioural problem see the other students are being rewarded for behaving themselves or doing good they too will want to be rewarded.

If on the other hand you take away some time from students break of lunch period for misbehaving this will reduce the chances of that student misbehaving.

In Grade K  a  now serving up behaviour chart have significantly improved students behaviour  the three behaviours  served are sweet, sour and bitter those students who remained on sweet usually are reward while those on sour are warned and those who move unto to bitter are punish so those behaviour  would be  repeated.

So it is pivotal that the role models display behaviour for which there is positive reinforcement so that the  behaviour can repeated, and that which is punished is less likely  to be repeated or the occurrences of that behaviour will be reduced.