The classroom management style used in my field experience classroom is a school-wide behavior management chart. Each day the students start on the color "green" throughout the day they can either move up or down the chart based on their behavior. If the teacher needs to tell the student to stop what they are doing more than once or twice the student then has to go move their clip down on the chart. When students are listening really well, being super quiet, or doing what they are supposed to without the teacher telling them she will have him move their clip up. Students who receive "pink" get VIP privileges the next day and get the sit at a special table instead of their normal seat. Whichever color the students get is marked in their take-home folder at the end of the day for parents to see. Each color is also worth a certain amount of classroom money that the students can use to do fun activities like watching a movie at the end of the 9 weeks. STO...
I liked your prezi, it was nice to look a something different. I agree with you, I think if teachers find it works in their classroom with their students than they should totally incorporate learning styles into their lessons. Just because something is not researched proven does not mean it does not work for some students, and for me even if it just helps one student learn better than it's worth it.
ReplyDeleteHi Danielle, We see differently on the first question in regards to the assessment of learning styles. I think that we each are able to learn and understand in a variety of different ways, I just imagine a room full of kids that have been labelled as visual learners and having no communication going on and everything is done with pictures...I don't really thing that will be beneficial. I know that that is taking the term to the extreme but that is what I picture in my head. The same goes for students that are classified with hearing, only talking would be in that class, no pictures just continuous talking and listening.
ReplyDeleteWe do agree on the disservice by using research or lack of research in the classroom, I believe that research is important but not the be all of the classroom environment. You mention homework, and I have see research for it and against it, I like when my children don't have homework, but then it also makes me wonder what they did all day, especially if they cannot tell me. My daughter had a 3rd grade teacher that didn't do spelling words and test, that was my favorite. They had another activity that took place for the week called word boggle, the students loved it and learned more words then they would have if they had spelling words every week.
I like your presentation. It was very creative, and I appreciate that you incorporated more learning styles than we normally hear about. I never thought about children learning musically, but it does make sense. I have boys that can rap about anything. If it helps them learn, I say go for it. I also remember teaching preschool and the children loved when we sang songs together. It was a way of drawing them in and getting their attention.
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