Hello Everybody, my name is Andra Winslow, I am a transfer student from Ivy Tech Community College and looking forward to being a junior at IU Bloomington this fall. I am currently studying to be an elementary school teacher but as undecided as I can be it could easily change I just know I love being around children and watching them grow and develop seems pretty neat to me!
A few facts about me, I come from a family of 4 sisters and a brother all from the same two parents, I love animals especially birds and different kinds of dogs. I currently am a hostess at the Cracker Barrel up here in Bloomington,IN, have been there for almost a year now.
Something Happens, We watch and reflect on it, and we think about it, we take action. Learning happens best when people are actively involved in their own learning, when they can draw on their own experiences, where they connect thoughts with their feelings through not just the student and teacher but the student, teacher, and parents all working actively to find a happy medium in which different children learn better in different ways. I felt as a child I learned best through hands on experience, having the teacher conduct an experiment while we watched and then got the opportunity to try and do the experiment ourselves. I have never been one to just read the materials I prefer visual aided props.
Andra,
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how your model aligns with this week's reading on the brain. One of the key things about teaching is definitely striking the balance among different stakeholders while keeping the interest of the child. I hope this course will provide some insights on how to achieve that!