Wednesday, December 1, 2010
December 1
Kuma's chapter 13, Monitoring Teaching Acts, offers a very nice closing to this book. In ISU's Teacher Ed. Program, we are constantly taught to reflect, reflect, reflect, and Kuma is offering strategies for self-ovserving, self-analyzing, and self-evaluating ourselves as teachers. I love that Kuma expresses the need for a user-friendly system as opposed to very complicated models discussed in the beginning of the chapter. The M&M scheme was extremely detailed, and I wish I would have read it before conducting my observations! I found episode 13.1 very interesting, and the M&M scheme made it possible for the teacher to recognize the missed learning opportunities in that class discussion. I think it is very common for teachers (especially beginning teachers) to recognize learner-initiated opportunities that are in line with the lesson plan or agenda and ignore ones that are not as described on p. 301. What an interesting concept! I am very impressed with this strategy and its integration of teacher, observer, and learner experiences to truly offer useful information to the classroom teacher. The use of videotaping is obviously invaluable, and I will certainly be thinking about this in the future.
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I agree! I wish I would have read this chapter prior to starting my observations this semester. Kuma did a great job with this chapter and making it easy to understand. I liked how it broke down the importance of observing and reflecting.
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of video taping students' presentations, speeches, etc. I personally hated it though when I was younger. Actually, I still do not enjoy being videotaped in the least. I do, however, realize just how beneficial watching yourself and seeing all the things you did well and areas where you could improve. Self-evaluation, like Kuma talks about, is key to learning and growing.
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