The first article for this reading
assignment was about field trips. This is an important topic for an ag teacher
because there are so many field trip opportunities in ag education to enhance the
learning for the students. Because I have been in ag ed, I have went on a lot
of field trips in high school and college, which was always a blast and proved
to be very educational but I never really realized why they were such great
learning trips until I read this article.
I like how field trips can be broken down into three simple steps. The pre-trip
stage, trip stage, and post-trip stage. By doing this it helps the field trips
go smother and allows the students to learn more because they will be prepare
to learn on the trip, do the trip, and have a wrap up to recap what they
learned.
The next article was on cooperative
learning. Cooperative learning is where
students work together in small groups on a task. There are several things you have to consider
when doing cooperative learning in order to make sure it is a success and the students
learn from it. Some things that you have
to decide are; how many learners do you want to have in a group, do you want to
have similar or different groups, is the room set up properly and do you have
the appropriate materials for the activity, how do you facilitate learning
through monitoring group work, and what did the students accomplish. This was a neat article and helped me learn
understand cooperative learning and what to do as a teacher instead of just
doing whatever as group work. Im sure I will use this knowledge often because I
like cooperative learning because it can be a fun way to learn.
The third article that we had to
read was on effective questioning. Questions are very important for teachers
because it allows them to do several things.
They can asses where students are at on understanding material, develop
student interest and thinking skills, and establish connections between
different concepts. There are different
levels of questions that you can ask.
Lower level questions are less complex and simpler while higher level
questions are more complicated and require more thought. Teachers can also ask
questions that are open ended or closed as well as general questions to the
whole class or a directed question to a specific student. There are lots and lots of things teachers
can do differently when asking questions to maximize the participation of the
students giving answers. The wait time
for teachers before they call on a student for an answer to a question is 5 to
7 seconds so the students have a chance to formulate an answer. It also gave a lot of ways for teachers to
handle the responses that students give when answering questions.
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