NINETH BLOG ENTRY

Teacher’s style of delivery

 

It is well known that every student has his or her own learning style, so teachers have his or her own style to teach. Those styles can vary for many factors. One of those factors are teachers personality, other could be teachers belief.

 As I said, people have individual learning styles; teachers have teaching styles that works best for them. It is important to be aware of our preferences when we as teachers are creating and delivering instruction. 

Developing an effective teaching style for our subject-area requires time, effort, a willingness to experiment with different teaching strategies, and an examination of what is effective in our teaching. 

My style of delivery

Well, I cans say that my teaching style is the facilitator because I believe that we as teachers have to help our students as much as we can, and when we chose to help our students to learn in the best way as possible; we are facilitating their learning process.

Teachers who have a facilitator model teaching style tend to focus on activities. Teachers typically design group activities which necessitate active learning, student-to-student collaboration and problem solving. This type of teacher will often try to design learning situations and activities that require student processing and application of course content in creative and original ways. I consider myself as a facilitator because I like to look for the best and most suitable activities for my students. Also, I think that every teacher should be a facilitator because it is our responsibility to facilitate our student learning.

EIGTH BLOG ENTRY

Convergent Questions

A convergent question is a specific question which represents the analysis and integration of given or remembered information. These questions could be a 'yes' or a 'no'. It is a question that does not permit a long conversation or any significant creativity. These kinds of questions could be are called yes no question because they are the most often use.  They are usually use by teachers when they want to get just a simple answer.

As, I said this questions are questions with a specific answer. They lead you to an expected result or answer. These questions usually start with what, where and when example: what is your favorite color? or did you eat today?

I think that this kind of question doesn’t make students to think because they just have to say a simple answer.  But I know that they are very useful when you just want your students to participate in class and you know that they are kind of shy, this is a good way to help your students to lose their fear to talk in front of their classmates.

Divergent Questions

A divergent question is a question that has no specific answer. It could have more than one answer. A divergent question makes one analyze and encourage greater involvement and have more accurate assessment because students have to do a good analysis of answer the question, I can say that this questions help students to think well and give the most appropriate answer to the question.

Divergent questions usually begins with suppose, predict. If... then, can you create.

These types of questions are always open-ended, allowing the students to express themselves as they demonstrate their ability to reason in the subject.

I believe that these two kinds of question are effective when you are teaching, but we as teacher have to know when is appropriate to use convergent or divergent questions in the classroom because sometime the topic will not allow us to use convergent and other topics will not allow us to use divergent or vise versa.

SEVENTH BLOG ENTRY

CLASSROOMS DESIGNS

Traditional Classroom

The traditional classroom designs is the one in which students are sat in lines they don’t see each other. As it is stated on the book, students’ desks and hard chairs are organized, with one being behind the other. The students face the teacher’s desk, which is customarily in the front of the room and well within the line of vision of all his/her students.

The teachers usually teach in the old same way that they were taught when they were students. The teachers often stand in front of the class in order to see everybody as well they can see the teacher.

Also the book stated that students most often are the passive recipients of information. The classroom is teacher-centered and subsequently teacher-controlled.

Nontraditional Classroom

The students are sat in a U form or semicircle, and students are able to see each other not as the traditional classroom that they are sitting in lines. Also students can be arranged in groups.

Another important point stated on the book is that the teacher delivers lessons using varied and/or multiple styles of delivery in different parts of the room. These may include anecdotes, storytelling, small-group collaborative exercises, and hands-on activities involving the entire class, partnerships, some individualization, and/or learning centers where the teacher serves as lesson facilitator.

Nowadays these two types are found in many schools around the world but these two classroom styles are also change in the last twenty year, now teacher are mixed these two types in order to improve the lesson.

SIXTH BLOG ENTRY

Comprehension

In a simple and clear way comprehension means the action or capacity to understand something. It means the state of being comprehended or the capacity of the mind to perceive and understand. In other words comprehension is the understanding and interpretation of what is read.

As it mention in the book comprehension involves memory, cognition, and metacognition. Memory is the storing and then recalling and retrieving of thoughts and feelings. Cognition and metacognition are recognized as being lower- andhigher-level thinking. Comprehension is the use of one’s memory andthese leveled thinking processes with the ability to understand or have knowledge about something.

The tree types of comprehension that are stated on the book are:

1. Literal: Literal comprehension is the ability to read something, and then have a real understanding of what you have read.

Example:  Independence Day in El Salvador is September 15^th.

2. Applied: Comparison and contrast comprehension, resulting from making connections to one’s own experience, or read or heard material.

Example: It is well known that El Salvador is a free country since 1821; I think the is partially true because we as a country need the help of other countries to survived.

3. Implied:  it requires the use of reasoning, drawing conclusion about the relationship between the information that are not explicitly stated

Example: analyzing with other citizen all of them conclude that we as country are in the process of be a really independent country as we should have been since 1821.

I think that we need to develop these three types of comprehension because the combination of these three comprehensions is the best way in which we can understand a paragraph or lecture in the best way possible