Hi Bloggers,
As I was searching for information for my Lessons, pertaining to the standards (as this is a new aspect of my Lesson Plans), and I came across the following information and found it to be interesting. I found that it was not only interesting for the Lessons but also for conducting the research project.
Taken from, Benson, 2003, p. 86-87 under the title
“Teach Students the Learner Action Cycle”.
Box 4.2 Students Using Learner Actions You have a new assignment so you access by listening, observing, reading, and researching, and what you have is a lot of information. So, you must interpret by selecting, classifying, outlining, sequencing, and comparing, and what you have is your focus. Then you must produce something by designing, creating, planning, building, or writing, and now what you have is a product and knowledge that you have to disseminate by teaching, presenting, and explaining to the audience for your learning. All along the way, you must assess your performance by reflecting, evaluating, and planning for the next time, and what you have is a goal and strategies. |
Having students actively involved in the learning cycle of assessing, interpreting, producing, disseminating, and self-assessing is the secret to meeting the content standards now required by state and national documents. If teachers are going to teach the processes in the standards along with the content, they must take students through this cycle as many times as possible so that the process becomes a part of their natural programming. Once this happens, students will have a recipe for success whenever they have to learn something new and use it.
Hope you find it of interest.
(Benson, B. P. (2003). How to meet standards, motivate students, and still enjoy teaching: Four practices that improve student learning. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publication, USA.)
