Thursday, September 24, 2009

link to other sources

This following doc. link gives teacher a good way to cmmunicate to parents or email or even to do the survey on web-site as well.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Warlick's website (http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/)
From this blog, we can see it really useful as we can use it to post anything that we want our students to read or to look at. It may also make students want to involve more as they can directly give some commands or feedback. Also when students create their own blog, they need to pay lots of attention to it and keep think while they type every words on it. It's a very useful web-site for every one of us to learn from not just students, but people all over the world.
When we expect to see students project, it must be orgaized nicely and with clear typed so this is just the right web-site to use. Also it showed the date whenever it posted or updated so it is also good to keep students work on time as well. Students may also tag any web-site that related on their blog and give the description about it.

Idea of different thinking for children

From our past until now, education has changed a lot during this whole time. It includes we changed our expectation for children and we changed our way to teach them as well. We always keep our eyes on children's growing process and want them to be bette every day. We changed from traditional way (teacher centered) to critical way (student centered) to prove our children to uper level of thinking. We started to stop asking "What we know", but "How we come to know" which is more thinking involved in the whole concept.

This is following my thought for essential question.

Since thinking has changed, we may see that problem solving skill level being higher than before. The constructure for all the idea is just “a seeking for truth, information, or knowledge-seeking information by question.” We may see there are whole bunch of kids acting differently, such as some are really quiet by themselves and some are really active to others. People are different so we need to find the best way for all of us to be in the same process.
Not only just from study we can see all of these process, but also we can see it during our life times, such as how we keep in health condition and how we expect our life to be. Essential Question- Why we need to exercie? From the whole idea to keep healthy, one of the requirment just to exercis without any question. Following we may add some more detail as our unit questions, like why more people face obesity in recent days? or what would effect us if we exercise every day? they are also require some basic thinking to answer the questions and even you may lead to more complicated questions as well
See my unit plan about exercise to see how I've incorporated a student-centered approach.