Professional Development at HVB

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  Click on the following link to access an article on Learning Styles on Vanderbilt University’s website. Read the article and record your response to the following questions in the comment section. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/learning-styles-preferences/ Questions for reflection: What are some of the important points the article makes? How have your views or beliefs on the concept of Learning Styles changed? How will your changed views or beliefs impact your classroom practice? What steps will you take to reconcile and integrate your new learnings from the session and the article on how people learn with your existing ideas?

Deadline: Monday, 3rd Feb, 2020   1.  Interdisciplinary Instruction The following exemplar video clip from an art class that shows how interdisciplinary instruction can be implemented productively in a classroom. Analyze the video and respond to the following questions:  a) What skills are being developed in the art class? b) What potential theories were used in creating this instruction method?, c) How does the teacher benefit from interdisciplinary approach to instruction? d) What changes would we, the teachers, need to make in our views, attitudes and culture so as to adopt such an interdisciplinary approach in our professional practice?    Share your views and ideas in the comment section. -------------------------------------- 2. Assessment for Learning (AfL) The following link will guide you to the article on Assessment for Learning by Cambridge. Go through this article and respond to the prompt that follows. Limit your response to approximately 200 wo

READING 1.  Read the material on Active Learning on the following Cambridge website and make note of important points. Try to connects points mentioned therein with concepts we have discussed in class. If you come across anything that contradicts ideas we developed in the sessions, please feel free to share them in the comment section. https://www.cambridge-community.org.uk/professional-development/gswal/index.html 2. Read the handouts titled "The Call for Constructivism" and "Becoming a Constructivist Teacher". This is a light read. As you read through the material, underline the words and phrases that you think are important and convey the essence of constructivist's way of thinking. Share some of the key points in the comment section of this post. This material is taken from  Brooks, J. and Brooks, M. (2004).  In Search of Understanding . Alexandria: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. 3. For secondary teachers only Read the

Watch the video below and make a note in the comment section the suggestions the speaker makes to make teaching activities engaging and motivating for learners. Mention against every suggestion proposed by the speaker, in a word or a sentence, the theory or concept on which her suggestion might be based.  In our previous session, we had constructed a partial framework that will help us design effective learning and teaching activities when we begin to work on lesson plans. Incorporate the suggestions made by the speaker in appropriate places in this framework. Bring your finished work in the when we meet next. Important thing to assess here is to what degree we are able to make sense of the speaker's propositions now that we have some understanding of human mind and how it learns thanks to the works of Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura, Piaget, Harlow, Chase & Simons, etc.  It is never a good idea to accept anybody's suggestions / strategies without first understanding t

Individual Research Work. 1. Research and write in your own words the tenets of Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandura. (Please do not copy them from any online source).  2. Identify some of the acquired (or learned) behaviours that students exhibit in class that you think are counterproductive and impede learning, but maybe rectified by teachers using modelling technique. (Talking over each other is one such behaviour that children learn from adults. It may be rectified if adults collectively model appropriate behaviour in class.) 3. Read about Cognitivism, and write in your own words some important differences between Cognitivism and Behaviourism. Deadline for submission for Primary section -- 8th December, 2019 Deadline for submission for Secondary section -- 7th December, 2019

From the reflection cycle, I extracted the following characteristics that distinguishes a reflective writing from a descriptive one: 1.         Description vs. Reflection. 2.         Reinterpreting from different points of view (others’ point of view). 3.         Exploring the impact of events on her emotions and behavior. 4.         Exploring the event at a different time. 5.         Relevant past and present experiences not compared. 6.         Willingness to be critical of own actions, behavior and motives.   7.         Evidence of ‘standing back’ from the event and reconsidering the event objectively. This list is not exhaustive and I am sure that you can easily come up with more criteria to add to it, but this set of criteria is good enough to make our assessment of Resource 6 consistent across all three samples. Having a common standard, such as a definite set of criteria, is essential to produce a reliable and objective measure of the quality of a given work