These images came up into my mind at the first time I came to PETA class...
- consider students' need
- well-prepared and complete resources
- supporting students' potencies
- focus on the basic objectives
As the course title, this is not just about teaching but also how to assess students effectively. We were introduced to that since the second meeting on October 4, 2010. Ms Tika gave us a brief explanation how to make lesson design by using Backward design. Set the goals of the subject, design some assessments to see the students' understanding, and then elaborate them into learning activities. Since she only told us the technique at a glance, I think it's fair if we still made such a confusing lesson plan. However, from this activity I notice that most of us still do 'twin sins' of design. Sometimes we only focus on designing fun activities and forget about the goals we want to achieve, and vice versa. But when we are too stick into the curriculum demand that we have to finish all of the topic, it can be boring for students. Yes, interesting lesson is not always effective lesson but this is the challenge for us as the next generation of teacher. Can we make a lesson design that cover the topics yet fun at once? It's another role of teacher: we have to be an awesome designer!
2 comments:
hei my twin brother :p
I agree with you, we should pay attention with this course because with this course we can learn how to an awesome teacher. I hope we can be teachers like that :D amen
4 Ulung, my Twin sista,
Yes, God must hear our prayer to be awesome teachers...
However, I think, in order to be a great teacher we cannot just learn from this course. Even I heard that teachers who have taught for years still learn to teach effectively. Maybe that's what we call "Long Life Learning, Long Life Teaching"
^^d
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