Monday, May 25, 2015
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 is about lesson planning for social studies classes in the elementary grades. This chapter went in depth on Bloom's taxonomy and how each of the levels should be used when teaching social studies. I liked the chart in our notes that showed the percentage of retention based on the type of classroom activity was going on. This really shows how important it is to be using the top layers in Bloom's taxonomy. Also noted in this chapter was the head, hands, heart model. When teaching social studies, teachers need to keep in mind all three of these aspects when it comes to learning. Students need to engage in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor areas of each topic discussed. When I begin teaching social studies I need to be able to balance out these three areas so students aren't primarily doing only one of the three. Overall, social studies teachers need to balance out mode of instruction based on Bloom's taxonomy for difficulty levels, as well as head, hands, and heart so students are able to not only know the cognitive sides of the topic, but the affective and psychomotor aspects as well.
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That chart was really neat, I knew that lecturing had the least retention but I thought it was definitely more more than 5%... It really shed light to why college students have a hard time retaining everything.
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I like that you mentioned the heart, hands, head model and needing to incorporate all three into our lessons. I think too often teachers choose to just lecture the material for the sake of retention and time. It's easier to just have the students listen and read but the hands on, emotional ideas really will stick with the students longer.
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