Chapter 3 taught me the difference between textbook based big ideas and standards based big ideas. It seems that the standards based big ideas require a higher depth of knowledge than text based. When assessing these big ideas teachers need to ask what do students know and care about when it come to the Big Ideas. This goes back to connecting ideas, building on prior knowledge, and using students' interests when planning. Standards based big ideas give teachers the chance to get out the text book and use other resources available to them. This will enable the teacher to personalize the students' learning. Teachers also need to teach students good learning strategies so they can succeed.
Two questions:
1.) Are the students really going to care about the Big Ideas? How as teachers can we make students understand why learning is important?
2.) Why is it college professors use the worst practice of teacher lecture, reading from and responding to texts, quizzes, and tests that ask students to recall what they know? If we should not do these things, then why do they model bad practices?
Hey Katie!
ReplyDeleteI just typed up two long paragraphs commenting on your posting. For some crazy reason, it did not work. Maybe you'll get this.
It worked? Okay. Yeah, I was thinking about textbook based big ideas and standards based big ideas as well. When I saw the word STANDARDS, I thought about STANDARDIZED STATE TESTING! Why? Well, standards based big ideas obviously require more forethought and deeper levels of knowledge-crank it up a notch DOK! Well, today's standardized state tests also require much more thought than in the past years. Does that make sense? Moving on...
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100% when you said that when teaching those Big Ideas, teachers should know what their students already know (schema) and also being aware of what they care about. I decided to share my thoughts in regards to question 1. I do think that students have the capacity to care about those BIG IDEAS taught in today's classroom. Effective teachers model the importance of learning on a daily basis. I think that there are many ways/techniques for teachers to make meaning of learning to students. Classroom discussions, research, BLOGGING, and personal experiences are just a few of the ways teachers can help their students understand the importance and significance of learning.