Monday, January 26, 2015

"Learning from my Mistakes" "Screams of Work"

I recently followed a blog titled "Learning from my Mistakes: an English Teacher's blog." The author discusses many things from punctuation to lesson plans. The article I chose to read and write about was "Screams of Work." From what I understand "Scheme's of Work" are essentially Lesson plans. In this entry, she discusses how much she dislikes lesson plans and how she believes there is a better alternative. I have written lesson plans as assignments for my classes; However, I have never had to write out lesson plans to use in a classroom setting. I did not mind writing the lesson plans but I also only had to do about ten; whereas teachers are writing hundreds of them for a year. The author proposes a better solution: Learning Journey's. Learning Journeys essentially adress the main objectives and themes, but not how they are executed. She believes this is more effective because it gives the teacher more flexibility to decide how he/she is going to teach the lesson. The teacher may notice that the method they are using is ineffective and want to change it multiple times. Having the flexibility to change things around, while still making sure to cover the essential information, could help teach the students that need different instruction.

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