Engaging Instruction with ALL Students

This week in AEE 412, we have two key questions we are looking to answer:

1) How does the uniqueness of our learners impact lesson planning? 2) How do “e-moments”, multiple intelligences, domains and modalities impact instructional design?

For the assigned readings, I really enjoyed watching the two TED talks. Kate Simonds educated the public about the lack of trust adults have in children and young adults. She used her platform at TED to encourage adults to take the information from younger generations to heart and start to take action with their ideas. Angela Maiers works to let everyone know that they matter and are on this earth for a purpose. As teachers, our students should feel important and comfortable to share their ideas and suggestions.

After completing this week's readings, I have three questions posed:

For my future students, what specific actions can teachers take to make you feel like you matter?

For my university supervisor, is there a magic number of correct objectives to include in a lesson plan? Most of the lessons in our college classes have three objectives; is this an appropriate number to use in a high school setting?

For #psuaged20, since we are not that much older than our students will be at our cooperating centers, what steps will you take to help students have a voice and feel like they matter without jeopardizing your position as the student teacher?

This week, I look forward to learning more about the processes of creating lesson plans to incorporate learner uniqueness, present our first day of school lesson in Lab, better understand how instructional design can be impacted by e-moments, multiple intelligences, domains, and modalities, and hand in our first rough-draft of a unit plan. I can already tell this week is going to be full of learning!