Week 5 Discussion

Hi everybody.

So this is weeks five discussion and we're talking about

scaffolding, so exactly what is that?

Well, scaffolding is pretty much breaking up learning into different

chunks and then being able to arrive tools and structures

within each chunk that is going to help aid you

in your teaching.

Um So when you're looking at your teaching, there are

three methods that I think will support blended learning very,

very well.

And the first one I'm going to talk about is

quality. So when you're thinking about quality, you want to

make sure the quality of your instruction as a teacher

is very good.

You want to make sure you're doing things like encouraging

eye contact, developing cooperation between the students, um and make

sure you're encouraging active learning and then emphasizing on time,

task, eye contact is very important.

I think I contact makes people feel like you're more

engaged and you can get engaged from your audience as

well. If they're actually paying attention to you.

If you're developing cooperation between students, it's going to make

it even better for you as an instructor because everyone

has that social need for something.

So that social need for networking and that social need

for being able to interact with other people help students

and brings them together.

So they were able to cooperate more within your classroom

and then looking and encouraging active learning.

You want to make sure your students are paying attention

to your not they're not just listening to what you're

saying, they're hearing it and they're able to listen to

it and then they're able to also apply what they've

heard and be able to comprehend it in a different

setting. So if you were giving them a performance test,

like a test or project, you can see the output

of if they were actually listening through that and then

you're going to have uh making sure you're emphasizing on

time task.

I know our teacher got into it us about making

sure we turn our products in on time.

So that's why it's very important.

You have time to go through everybody's stuff and grade

everybody accordingly and you're not trying to rush you with

different things.

Um, and so the next one I'm going to talk

about is cooperation kind of hit on it just a

little bit ago.

Um, but to go a little bit of further with

it. Cooperation is on both ends, not only just from

the students with them, but also for the instructor with

the students as well.

The instructor has to cooperate with the students and they

have to all be on the same page and understand

that hey, we are here for a reason and we

are here for a purpose.

Let me explain the purpose to you because what I

find is with my classroom, if they understand the purpose

or understand the why and the reasoning behind why we're

here or why we're doing things, they're able to knock

out those tasks a lot easier and they are more

productive in that manner.

The last thing I'm gonna cover is focused, focus is

very important.

You have to be focused with your learning and you

have to be focused with your different outcomes.

You have to be fair and you have to be

equal across the board.

Um, it's easy to look at students and you know,

you kind of have your favorite students that they're always

doing everything that you ask of them and then there's

sometimes that they're not.

So you have to make sure that you look and

you see, hey, I'm being fair all around all around

the board and I'm paying attention to my students as

well. So how can blended learning um help you with

online learning?

So how can you blend the face to face classroom

with your online learning environment?

Um It's something that I think is an easy process.

It's just, you have to have a solid plan and

you have to have a method of delivery that you're

actually going to use and then you have to have

a good way to gauge what you're gonna do.

I think the idea of flipping your classroom, so having

certain days of classroom maybe like when you teach them

like instructions.

Um so for me, I have performance tests that they

have to complete.

Um for me flipping that class would be instead of

me doing it all virtual or all in class, I

can flip the class say monday, Tuesday Wednesday, I give

them directions on monday, they have Tuesday Wednesday to work

on it, thursday we come in and they actually deliver

that performance has, so that's just going to be a

briefing that they have to do.

Um and I think that will really aid in um

trying to blend face to face with online learning or

at least how I would like to do and to

you. So having a plan and then flip in your

classroom will be great ideas of doing that.

So they, number three I have point I have, is

going to be evolving the role of teachers.

Teachers have to up all, they have to have high

energy, they have to be ready, they have to be

technically literate in order to get these things done because

having the technical literacy and the energy and then also

lastly, the motivation will help engage the students even more

because if I come in the classroom every single day

and I'm just like, well, hello students today, we're going

to do this and tomorrow we're going to do that

versus how I normally am high students.

Good morning.

So glad to see you today, we're going to accomplish

such and such.

X, Y Z.

You can see the difference with the inflection of the

voice of the tone and different things.

It will make them be more engaged.

That energy would transfer to them whether you're in a

face to face environment or in a virtual setting.

And then the last thing I want to talk about

is the challenges of transitioning to online learning.

So of course digital literacy.

Do you have the tools that you need?

Are you literate in the technical world?

A lot of people aren't at the same level of

technology, the kids coming into this generation, especially within the

military. A lot technically smarter than a lot of us.

So we have to play ketchup and we have to

know how to use these things like zoom or Microsoft

teams, whatever.

We decide to use google dot, when versus a lot

of the students, they already know how to do those

things. So we have to make sure that we're meeting

in the middle and we're all on the same page

and that goes for the students as well.

If we use the method that they're not used to,

they have to be able to adjust that.

We have to be able to teach them in order

to adjust that.

Um, you also have a weak internet.

Internet can be very shoddy.

Sometimes even in my house, I have a good internet

packages. Sometimes it can go out depending on the weather

and that could be anywhere.

So you have to make sure that everyone has a

strong internet connection.

And then lastly, your time management time management is going

to be very important because of course in a online

class you are often given different tasks to complete and

at different dates you have stuff to do.

Like, for instance, our class, we have, you know, our

stuff comes out on Wednesday on saturday.

Our initial responses are doing it on that Tuesday are

before that Tuesday are two responses are due.

So it's important that you stay on task and if

you manage your time wisely, I know a lot of

us work during the day.

Of course I do.

And I normally don't get home until 56 o'clock at

night, so I have to try to manage my time

wisely. Sometimes on my lunch break I'll do my work

or sometimes after I get off work and come home

and cook dinner and all that stuff to take care

of the house.

I'll go ahead and take care of it then.

So, time management for yourself and your students is very

important. Um, and making sure that they accomplish all these

different tests that they have.

So these articles that we read this week, they really

do talk about scaffolding and these particular things that we

were able to point out, really do aid in that

process. You breaking everything down just like the project we're

about to do with breaking every single thing down and

were able to get through it.

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