As Week 5 begins in my #TeachAg journey leading up to my student-teaching experience, we are about to dive into developing well-structured objectives and using group teaching as a classroom management technique.
Objectives:
1. Objectives set the direction of each class. What will you be talking about? What should the students know or be able to do at the end of class?
2. Provides students with clarity regarding action and task oriented goals that can be measured.
3. Objectives CANNOT be vague; they must be concrete and measurable
4. Should be posted on the white/chalkboard or PowerPoint of every class.
As I look to the future of developing lesson and unit plans, this information about objectives will drive what I create. I need to create objectives that are high on Bloom's Taxonomy, ones that are measurable, and ones that clearly encompass the purpose of the course. I must constantly be thinking about how I can get my students to learn actively and objectives can help solve this concern.
Here is a resource I discovered that provides adjectives to use for objectives as related to the three different domains of cognitive, psychomotor, and affective.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vLqEfH9ODhQWoxbVZScVpwaVk/view?ts=59b88060
Group Teaching:
1. Can be a management tool to save time
2. The group techniques are lecture, discussion (class discussion, brainstorming), demonstrations, field trips, role-playing, resource people, and cooperative learning
3. Allows for collaboration of different group members
4. Can serve as a mentor/mentee relationship
5. In cooperative learning, students are pushed to self-directed learning and the idea of a growth mindset
As I am developing my lesson plans, this idea of group teaching is going to be key in how to transfer information from myself to my students and how I plan to effectively and efficiently run my classroom. I must also be able to decide when it is or is not appropriate to use group teaching.
Here is a really great webiste I found through Vanderbilt University about how cooperative learning can lead to higher and deeper learning.
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/setting-up-and-facilitating-group-work-using-cooperative-learning-groups-effectively/