Section 2: Theories and Models of Learning and Instruction.

I will want to teach my students how to read and analyze poems and poetry. I want incorporate Schema Theory and Situated Cognition to teach this skill set. Since, comprehension and analysis of poetry can happen on many levels schema theories ideas on narrated visuals, presentation of simple to complex ideas and students working on half-finished issues would allow us to build from a simple idea like identifying rhyme scheme to more complex systems of naming verse and meter. While situated cognition helps the students develop as a community, students who are ahead of our target can be challenged to teach and share with students under the target. Learning in the community can be powerful.

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When teaching students how to research for a paper I realize that I will need to use the techniques of scaffolding and mathemagenics to teach the concepts in a whole-task approach. Research is something that falls by the way side in secondary school because you cannot test for it. However, no one skill could be more important, I know that even now I struggle to stay on top of research. By scaffolding the students, I would be able to gently introduce proper library function, reading techniques, sources and citing. Mathemagenics would be very useful, because students need to be adaptive and fluid when approaching new libraries, this technique would help the students find information that is useful, people to help and the right questions to present. English, research, and reading will be skills that students use in life and on-line a great deal; these three methods are important for integration of reading and language arts into the students everyday life.

This is an incredibly helpful amount of research, I have had a couple of “Ah, Ha!” moments. I noted that motivation is a strong part of my philosophy of education, but I had not been able to articulate what I wanted to focus on. Now I have a few different ideas to pursue as I develop my classes and incorporate TEKS into the lesson. Also, I like the ideas in mathemagenics! Defiantly.