Tag Archives: Teaching
Does Classroom Management = Caring?
Caring is so important to learning I am preparing to lecture on how to manage classrooms behaviors tomorrow morning. This week’s learning theory flavor is Behaviorism; I am not a big fan of this theory, but it does have its uses. We are using Woolfolk’s “Educational Psychology” textbook for our required texts, and she is [...]
Significant Learning? Who cares.
Caring, huh? My instructor for my independent study on teaching in higher ed has led me to the significant learning model of L. Dee Fink and his Significant Learning model. I like his model because it includes all the principles I think are important for our instruction. Significant Learning Elements (Fink, 2003) Notice how caring [...]
Turning Learning Goals into Significant Learning
I have been working on instructional goals for a class assignment. I am reworking my Dreamweaver classes based on backwards design and Fink’s significant learning, and I am struggling with how to translate my goals into significant learning. I want to teach my students more than Dreamweaver; my students must learn how to use Dreamweaver [...]
Constructivist teaching in the technology education classroom
What is constructivism? Constructivism is different from objectivism. Objectivist’s teaching techniques involve the idea that all knowledge comes from outside of the individual and that the teacher give all knowledge to the learner; however, a constructivist’s teaching methods involve the idea that all knowledge comes from within the learner, that learners must take information and [...]
A great summary of instructional design for online courses
“Several differences have been observed between traditional instructional design and e-Learning design. First, traditional design models follow a hierarchical, linear design approach in which the design components are disconnected and segmented whereas e-Learning is characterized by a non-linear design in which instructional information is presented in a form of web or network. Second, in traditional [...]
