My goal in finding a blog to follow was to search for one
that spoke to me on a personal level. I
really enjoyed reading the blog, Dangerously Irrelevant. http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/
I felt that Scott Mcleod had a lot of the same ideas as
myself. In his most recent post, he
talked about the importance of students building and creating to make learning
more meaningful. He said that if a
student comes home with a wrong answer marked, there is very little follow up
conversation, but if a student comes home after making something they are proud
of, they will want to share, explain, and discuss.
In another blog post, he breaks down lesson planning and
asks the teacher whether their lessons contain deeper thinking, student agency,
authentic work, and digital tools. All
of these are broken down for the teacher.
I also LOVE and agree with his blog post about pushing
academics on kindergarteners, even requiring they go to summer school.
Amy, I really like what you pulled out of Scott Mcleod's blog about students wanting to show off something they are proud of as opposed to hiding something they failed at. I think this is a really important situation to know as teachers. I like the idea of positively building students up and highlighting what they did well as opposed to pointing out their mistakes. Mr. Mcleod was so right. My students definitely do not show their parents when they fail something nor do they ask questions about it often times, but as soon as they do well on something, they want to share it and continue working on it. We want to give our students the confidence to be successful and we can do this through positive affirmations!
ReplyDeleteHis is one of the blogs I saved for future reference. I like the way he thinks about learning.
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