Week 4

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 1. What did you learn this week?

    This week we learned about Instructional models and the 5E's. When creating lessons and coming up with models we want to think of four aspects. First we want to provide a framework to plan, develop and deliver lessons. Second we should put some arrangements of phases, step, actions or decision point for teaching. Third we should have learning theories that are accepted at the time of the model's development. Last we should modify our models when new evidence comes out. We also learned about the the 5E's in modeling. The 5E's include engaging, explore, explain, extend, evaluate. Each of these steps of modeling will be done from both the students and the teachers. 


2. How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future?


    The 5E's will be very important when it comes to me teaching in the future. Not only does it get me to take my lessons to the next level of thinking for my students but it keeps me challenging my own thinking. With each section of the 5E's there are teacher roles and student roles. For engage my role is to make lessons that engage the students. The students role of engagement is to listen and learn. A teachers role in the explore sections is to provide activities that promote learning and the students role is to research and discover more about the topic. In the explain section the teachers role to to explain what the students should be learning. The students role is to back up reasoning with evidence. Next is extend and the teachers role is to create a new problem to apply what students have learned. The students have the opportunity to elaborate on the science methods they already know. The last E is evaluate, this is where the teacher observes to ensure that students understand. The role of the students is to assess themselves in what they may know. All of these parts of teaching make it so students can be successful in school. I want to follow all of the E's for every subject and I want my students to as well. It will make sure that each student is getting the most out of their learning.

 

3. What are new or remaining questions? 


    I think my only remaining questions is can the 5E's work for other subjects not just science and how? I think this model can be very effective for all subjects and I think more teachers should use this. It think it could be more challenging with reading but I feel it would work for something like math. 



Comments

  1. Quinn GillespieSeptember 22, 2024 at 11:02 AM

    Hi I thought your question about the 5E Model applying to other subjects was interesting. I think a simple model like this could be helpful in most, if not all subjects. Applying this model to math, like you said, could be a fun way to encourage students to be interested in more STEM fields too.

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  2. Sophia QuiltySeptember 22, 2024 at 7:27 PM

    Totally agree! I would love to see the 5E model applied to other disciplines and how that would work.

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