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Tuesday, August 17, 2004
metacognitive reflection
教材:课文中3首结构相同的唐诗
活动:
(1)让学生默读3首唐诗。
(2)让学生找出唐诗押韵的原则。
(3)通过提问的方式,帮助学生了解他们是如何得出自己的结论的。
(4)引导学生把所应用的原则(比较)应用到其他方面。
something: 比较的原则
somehow: metacognitive reflection(元认知)
somewhere: 英国文学 (far transfer)
Friday, August 13, 2004
Week 3: Planning and Psychologizing Curriculum (SIOs)
1. Given a list of 20 chinese characters from the 1A Chinese Textbook, a Secondary One average ability student will recognise every one of them by giving their meanings and pronouncing them correctly.
2. The Secondary Four above ability students will be able to analyse an unseen Tang poem without any reference to their notes or textbooks.
Monday, August 09, 2004
Week 3: Plannnig and Psychologising Curriculum (Learning Theories)
Different lesson plans require the application of different learning theories. And in most cases, a single lesson plan will probably have to follow more than one learning theory, since what can be taught in one lesson is usually more than a single skill. The principle to follow, therefore, is which learning theory can best serve the purpose of different parts of the lesson plan.
For instance, when teaching a chinese lesson (like a particular text from the textbook), behaviourism will first have to be applied when teaching the new words. This is because the students are not at all familiar with the new words, and they have to be "spoon-fed" with the meaning, pronounciation, and the way the chinese character is written. From the teacher's demonstration of which stroke of the chinese character comes first, the student will be able to know how the word should be written, without which the student is rendered helpless. Then the student can be tasked to practise how the character is written. By doing so, the student will be able to, through "drill and practise", remember how to write the character correctly.
Thus, by following the behaviourist learning theory, the stimulus here is the teacher writing the character on the board, following the correct order of the strokes. The student responds by practising it himself, and the teacher further reinforces by going through the word with the student again. This is quite the traditional classroom scenario, and the students learn by "conditioning". Behaviourism usually forms the basis for higher learning: in this case, chinese character is the basic knowledge needed in order to form words and sentences.
The teacher can also follow the cognitivist learning theory in the same class by teaching the student the patterns the strokes of a chinese character follow (like the order is always from left to right, top to bottom, the dot usually coming last, and the like). The teacher can also point out certain "expert" ways of remembering the order of strokes, causing the student to learn how to apply them to future situations.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Week 2
I would like to reflect on the following questions:
What do you think are the learning theories guiding week 1 activity?
Can you transfer what/how you learn to your future teaching?
What was the pedagogical approach employed?
What were the tools used?
What do you think the engaged learning framwork?