What did you learn from the reading and the videos? Both Sir Ken Robinson and George Couros talked about how we should focus on strengths. I think it was in tutor training that we talked about how a slow reader can work and work and work and only get a little faster, but a fast reader can work the same amount and experience and incredible increase in words per minute. Kids should have the opportunity to explore what the care about. When kids are passionate about something they are more likely to be problem finders that Ewan McIntosh says the world needs. I liked the definition of intelligence as not simply knowing but doing something with what you know I liked the quote on page 17 of the book, “The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” It is a little bit daunting but it is so true. It is like when you work out, eventually what you start with will be too easy and no longer challenging enough to provide any change in strength or ability so you have to change your workout. On page 47 in the book, Couros discusses that it is not that teachers do not want to change it is that they do not know how to change. My current classroom teacher talks a lot about how he would love to try some new things but it feels like he is just sitting spinning his wheels. There are so many things demanding his attention that trying new things get pushed to the back burner. I liked the questions that were provided on pages 39 and 40 and I think that they are a good place to start implementing an innovator’s mindset by taking what we already know how to do and using that knowledge to make something new and better. How does it change your thinking moving forward? I am always focusing on what I need to do better on and I guess I should be focusing on what I do well. I want to start focusing on are my strengths and working on building those up so they can help me in my weak areas.
I also want to ask more questions to my students and my colleagues. Like the quote on page 58 says, “What we model is what we get.” -Jimmy Casas. If my goal is to get encourage curiosity in my students, I should model curiosity to them. I remember in high school we had to read and annotate a passage and there was a word that no one knew. The next day in class the teacher asked if anyone knew what the word meant… crickets. She was so frustrated with us for not being curious enough to look up the word. It was not like we had to go find a dictionary, we all had smartphones. Every time I see a word I do not know this scene goes through my mind. Sir Ken Robinson said, “Education is meant to take us into the future we can’t grasp.” He talks about how schools “Kill” creativity, we teach kids not to be curious. How are the kids we are teaching now going to handle the world if they are not curious?
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I hope to learn how to evaluate tech tools to see which one will best fit the goals of the lesson and the needs of my students. I am excited to learn more about leadership and collaboration throughout the course so I can be a better teacher and coworker.
I am not sure this fits into this class but I also want to learn how to questions more effectively. So often I feel like I am handing the students way to much help. I feel like there is a fine line between productive struggle that leads to deep understanding and frustration that leads to giving up - I need help telling the difference.
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