(Sept. 28 exit slip): Praise, blame, mindset and student engagement -- Alfie Kohn & Jo Boaler

Exit slip: Personal thought on the praise, blame multidimensional  in teaching
Sep 28, 2017

My perspective towards praise is somewhat neutral. Being a teacher it a very important to give the acknowledge instead of praise. As a teacher, it is good to give the warm approval but approval should be in the form of motivational so,  that students would motivate and he/she generate curiosity, interest towards the math.

Dweck mentioned in the video that we call math is a big elephant so the idea is some student good with math and some not. Giving praise in the form of motivation is kind of provoking or generating interest towards math.   Acknowledge the students either written or verbal is essentially important.  I also agreed with my peers that social praise is equally important instand of only teacher's praise.  It provides social communication and helps among the peers. The multidimensional strategy is most effective that one-dimensional strategy because it develops the student's skills including questioning, asking,problem-solving and reasoning representation and also helps to engage the students in the classroom. I like the statement  Dweck(2010) “ praising students for the the-the process, they have engaged in the effort they applied, the strategies they used, the choices they made, the persistence they displayed, and so on –yield more longterm benefits than telling them they are “smart” when they succeed.” (p.18) . Encourage and reward the student for trying, and your praise is specifically and judiciously offered.(Strategy no. 55 by Jodi Reiss).

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(Sept. 28 entrance slip): Max van Manen on the tact of teaching

Entrance slip – Max Van Manen on “tact in teaching”                          Sep 25, 2017

First quote:

“It is important that teachers understand the positive as well as the possible negative consequences of praising students. A compliment should be meaningful and should not be granted indiscriminately because, if given too readily and freely it may lose its significance”

According to my view as a teacher, it is very important to reward the students in the classroom and rewards should be meaningful and provoking. No matter students are wrong or right in the classroom. It is the teacher responsibility to create a safe, healthy and positive environment where both effective teaching and learning can take place. In the absence of positive environment, both teacher and students would suffer. It is a teacher responsibility to understand the negative and positive results if he /she are not respecting the students. In the classroom, there should be a mutual bond between the student and teacher,  to create the healthy learning atmosphere. If this kind of tact does not involve in teaching, teacher, student and parents would suffer.

Second:

 “Reflective thinking is important not only as a tool for teaching but also as an aim of education, said (Dewery, 1964).”

The aim of education is to deliver the right information to the future students. If the teacher is delivering right information than the future students will get successes that reflect the hard work and critical thinking of teachers.  Reflective thinking is a powerful tool used in the teaching to help develop a higher order of learning.

Third:

“The study of the practice of teaching would need to be sensitive to the experimental quality of practice knowledge:  the acknowledgment that much of this tact, this instant knowing what to do, ensues from one’s body and from the things and the atmosphere of one’s world”.

I would say as a teacher practical knowledge always surrounds. As a biology teacher practice aspects encourage the student’s curiosity and interest towards the hand on experiments whether the practice is  In -situ or In –vivo, this practicality also generates the interest towards the nature around the world. In order to have this tact of teaching,  the teacher should focus on the practical things instead of theoretical. Practical knowledge always acknowledges it is important to think what to do? where to do?  The intact practice ensures from teacher to students in the atmospheric world. 

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 More pics of Rock garden :These pics made up of waste ceramic plates.

The Rock Garden is a Sculpture garden in Chandigarh. The interesting fact about this garden is the that it’s entirely built on industrial and home waste and discarded items. Sculptures are made using bottles, glasses, bangles, tiles, ceramic pots, sinks and electrical waste. These pics are made up of glass bangles.

(Sept. 21 exit slip): Flipped classrooms

 EXIT SLIP       Sep 21, 2017
Title: Flipped class model in classroom

Flipped classroom debate for the education in today's classroom was very interesting. I believe in this world everything has its own advantages and disadvantages. Here is my perspective:

The biggest advantage for flip classroom model it creates a lot of help to lean at home and school.  Through watching the small video and online tutoring also provide some sort of help to revise the topics (i.e. math and science etc.). This model helps students to learn their own pace and time.

Technology is changing day by day with aver fast speed  People s accepting faster and easy things to learn and understand the skills also to communicate with others. This technology like online tutoring, you tubes videos, presentations and video recording is accepting in the classroom very rapidly. But some school district has some policies or limitations. As an educator, it is important to accept or respect those policies for education. 
The most important thing for online learning that teachers could track every student's performance.  flip classroom model help students to become learn, what, where, when and how. It gives you self-paced learning. 
  Disadvantage:  It proved that working or studying long hours with the computer screens create lots of physical and mental problems but yes we could not change the modern scenario.  I like the concept of Khan's. academy where millions of students taking studying online. Thank you, god we do have a state- of the art facilities but think of those poor countries where electronics and media are still far away from them. Still those students studying with minimal resources.

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(Sept. 21 entrance slip): Entrance slip- Grant & Zeichner article on being a reflective teacher

 Grant & Zeichner article: On becoming a reflective teacher

Entrance slip

Sep 19, 2017

This article speaks to me of new prospective teachers in Vancouver 2017, even though this article was written in different time and place but few of the aspects in this article have similarity with this state of Vancouver. I agree with his line stated that “As you processed with your professional education you will be confronted with the numerous choices about the kind of teachers you want to become. Prospective teacher candidates don’t have the choice what teaching strategies you could involve during classroom Vancouver state has an authority to design different teaching strategies (i.e. 120 strategies for English language learners) that include the class management, planning conducting, what to include in the course content and rules of practice.

Teachers cannot teach based on their own assumption, teachers have to follow the B.Cs curriculum core competencies Similarly, Grant and Zeichner gave one example in the state of Wisconsin it is required that teacher teach the history of their own state. However they gave the guidelines of teaching what to teach in the history subject in grade 4, but this strategy does not familiarize the student’s world background knowledge on history that seems irrelevant to me as a teacher. 

According to my prospective state should include world history in the grade 4 so, they would aware of that concept. Mathematics and science are same in the whole world, their formulas and process are same teach in very grade so, why not history worldwide. I would like to share my experience. When I was teaching in grade 4 I had been instructed to teach guideline areas of contents of history. So, I had an authority to choose which subject I wished to teach.

These criteria still exist in many parts of the countries. As a science teacher, we have some Guidelines governed by state how to teach and what to include in teaching etc. The teacher should follow the educational and ethical guidelines.  As future educator teacher has a responsibility to deliver the right information to the future student. What you are going to teach also reflect the human reflection as teachers. 

“Dewey defines the reflective action which defines the way of meeting and responding the problems” one of the main important part of education how much time you spend with observing and working with teachers and administrations during practicums. Prospective teachers should have three an attitude to reflect actions and behavior that include open-mindedness, responsibility, and wholeheartedness. Teachers must have the active control over their education. Reflective teachers should aware of their actions and their consequences.

(Sept. 14 exit slip): Frank McCourt and teacher inquiry

Exit slip
Sep, 2017

After watching MacCourt's video . I really impressed by this quote" if you are not teaching than you are not learning and you are no teaching".  Teaching is  a noval profession of learning it could be consciously and unconsciously. Learning reflects in your teaching if you are learning well than you could be able to deliver the knowledge effectively.  Teacher need to learn everything about the culture of adolescent   Promote students to learn and develop their own critical thinking  inquiry. Teacher should understand the level of teenagers social, mental and physical status to develop the bond between the students and teachers. According to him teacher should be hunger for leaning and knowledge. Being a teacher I would also encourage students towards  critical thinking , learning, communication,, personal and social competencies that  require to develop the inquiry projects.

(Sept. 14 entrance slip) - first thought about Inquiry topic possibilities

September 14, 2017

Hi. Everyone.   Today's discussion (week second)   Field trip and Bullying                                                             

 I am passionate and very much interested  and I want to include in my inquiry 1 and 2 projects. I would like to highlight few thing about areas of interest.

• My first preference would be field trip plus experiments. Some kind of science related experiments which are benefit to everyone.  Along with small field experiment, we could also enjoy the nature closely at the same time.  
• Second preference is in -class experimental activities following small jeopardy quiz game and 
• last but not the least, I am interested in orchard garden to explore the botanical plants where we could sit and discuss our problems related to subject areas.
• Bullying control in the classroom 

After some discussion, we concluded that banking methods vs problem posing methods among the students, some graphical visualization, promoting student towards the new technology and new software, showing some kind of small video clips related to science and technology. So, in this way, we could make the class more productive and engage which cover the B.Cs  curriculum competencies including critical thinking, learning, and communication.Furthermore, we could also encourage students to make a small report what you learned in the class. Engaging students in the class provide better management and planning.

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Hello Everyone                                                                                          Sep 9, 2017

This is Sadhana Verma, This is my new blog. It was great discussion and interaction with all of you on Sep 7, 2017. I am going to discuss first two statements which we discussed in the group.

Firstly, I would like to give my opinion about the Raffaella Borasi’s first statement which is “It is not good trying to reason things out of your own”. I am completely agreed with above statement. If we do learn anything very promptly than we could correct the problems very efficiently and successfully without any dilemma. As a teacher, it is very important to learn and understand the problem in a right manner so that we could deliver the right information to our future students. However, the disagreeable part is skipping problems and not pay attention does always create lots of conflicts and time management problems. By paying proper attention and lot of practice is directly proportional to the promptly solve the problems. Better to pay attention in the class and discuss with the specialized and expert person is always a  good idea instead of pondering alone. Similarly, in mathematics, we do always put the right formula solves the equation. Thinking alone cannot solve these deficiencies away. So you need proper procedures (means correct person and applications) to solve these deficiencies (problems).

Second statement: “Staying too much on the problem is the waste of time”. I am totally agreed with this statement because if we think and spend lots of time on one problem then we will not be able to manage the life properly in a timely manner, therefore, we could find the bundles of the problem at the same time that creates a bundle of problems. Looking keenly and observing only one problem cannot reach you a successful ladder. But disagreeably skipping a problem is always creating a lack of understanding. In learning environments such as in the field of teaching, the problems are designed to demonstrate understanding and certain skills in order to solve the problems. These skills sets contain the step by step progression to solve any given problem. If one such is skill is lacked in order to solve the problem, the same lack of skills will be seen in solving higher order problem sets. Therefore, especially in the field of mathematics, the rule of progression is important which explains the flow of solving a problem i.e. simple to a 

complex problem.

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