This week in Social Studies Methods, we have continued to present our lessons, and we are finally finished! Seeing all the different lessons, was really an awesome experience. Every one had such creative ideas, and sparked some ideas for me to go off of as a future teacher. The traditional lesson plan, was so different from the flipped lesson plan, in that you have to squeeze time to actually teach the content into 20 minutes. The flipped lesson was much easier in my opinion, because I had the whole 20 minutes to elaborate on what was taught in the video, and do a longer learning experience, which are my favorite. All in all, this was a wonderful experience to have.
For my research this week, I found an article from Edutopia, titled, Myths That Undermine Parent Involvement. This article caught my attention, because I think that parent involvement is very important in the classroom. Of course there will be obstacles to that, such as, a student not having parents or having terrible parents, but we need to find ways to cope with those issues, and get more parents and guardians involved in their students school life. This article talks about the myths behind what parents think are parent involvement, and they are spot on. I know that when I was in grade school, being in the PTA as a parent what you had to do to be a good parent. Every parent that could would join the PTA. However, this article hits on how that is not very effective in being involved in their students school life. Yes, the PTA is an amazing thing for the school systems, but what the students really need are learning activities at home with their parents. Or having the parents actually in the classroom for a day to show the rest of the students something cool to learn. This article hits on those big myths of parent involvement, and is a very interesting read, because I could see them all connecting to my time in grade school, and my parents.
This article connects to the North Carolina Teaching Standard number one, because as teacher we need to demonstrate leadership in our classroom, and that means that we find different ways to get the parents involved in the classroom and in their students home life. We must show the parents different ways that they can help their child learn at home, and then the parents will be more prone to do so.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/myths-that-undermine-parent-involvement-mark-phillips
Amber,
ReplyDeleteI have mixed feelings about the flipped lesson format but I agree, it is nice to have extra time for student involvement! It's actually funny that you mention parent involvement, because I was conversing with someone earlier this week about the topic. I believe that parents can make or break their student's success! How could you change the route for a student who is considered at risk?