Week 5 Personality

I believe that everyone learns differently. Not everyone is the same and we have all had different life experiences that effect the way we learn. Some are auditory, some are visual, and others can be kinesthetic learners. Peoples personalities do play a role in how they learn. For instance I am a hands on person and need to be shown how to do something before I can begin to do it.

According to my results I have a ways to go in working on my future planning because I live in the present. However, this will come in handy for me because I know that many high school students are the same way and I will be able to relate to them and their scattered brains. Also, me personality result sheet says that I have great people skills and will be able to communicate with them easily. So yes I believe that this test will help me know my students better.

Excell Worksheets

I really liked using the spreadsheets, they were not that difficult to use and were very handy. They can be very useful, as long as you know what you are doing. I do plan on using spreadsheets in my class of the future.

As teachers, I believe the main thing we use spreadsheets for are grading purposes. With a spreadsheet you do not have to keep reentering calculations, you just enter a formula and it figures everything out for you. This eleminates a need for a calculator when it comes to doing grades. Spreadsheets can also be used to create timelines, worksheets, schedules, and calendars.

Inspiration

When I first started watching this video I was thinking to myself "hurry up and end" but that did not last very long. Only a minute or two into the video it really began to catch my attention and I became more and more impressed with the video as it went on. Inspiration is possibly one of the most useful tools I think a teacher could ever have. It provides him with an easy way to create graphs, charts, and powerpoints. I think the most amazing thing it does is that it can convert charts and graphs into note form which is very useful and a wonderful time saver. As a physical education instructor I may not use this as much as other content teachers, but it can be useful to keep track of any chart, diagrams, or powerpoints I may use.

An activity that can benefit form multiple revisions and feedback is a quick write that develops into a paper. A quick write is a simple activity where the students take just a few minutes to write a few sentences down about what they have read. If you quick write every day you allow the students to quick write every day the students begin to build a paper. With student peer revisions it allows them to elaborate and bounce ideas off of each other. Technology can be used to support peer feed back with the use of a blog site, or some kind of revision site for the class. The site can allow students to offer up their papers for peer reviews or ideas without having to be in class. Of course these would have to monitored and maintained be the teacher.

A few semesters ago I did have to teach a topic that I was not very familiar with. Before I taught it I had to do some research on it so that I would know what I was teaching . After I had taught it to the class I did know it a little bit better. I have also taught a subject that I was pretty familiar with, but after teaching it I felt that I knew it better anyway.