I recently taught a course entitled Educational Psychology. It is a course for pre-service teachers (for those of you who don’t know, pre-service teachers are those students preparing to become teachers; once they finish college, get certified, and actually get a job in a school district, they become in-service teachers). So I’m teaching this course aimed at preparing the students for the realities of the classroom, of the school and school district, of the policies associated with teaching, of behavioral management, of lesson planning, etc., etc. The grade was calculated based on 14 quizzes (they had three attempts, and we took the highest grade into account), and on two online projects consisting of five questions they had to answer “thoroughly”. Now, these students are preparing to become teachers and educate future generations. These students are the ones who will be educating my kids…technically only, because I have already decided my kids will be home-schooled. These are the people who will be molding your child into a future decent and productive member of society. As such, I was expecting these students to work hard and want to learn, and I was definitely NOT expecting them to not even know how to use the English language. Aren’t you supposed to have a good command of English before you can teach anything to anyone? Aren’t you supposed to know how to use proper grammar, syntax, and punctuation (let alone spelling and capitalization)? Aren’t you supposed to want to get better in your use of the language before you can deliver a lesson to someone else, to young children who don’t know any better and look up to you as a teacher? Is it just me? Am I going crazy thinking that teachers are supposed to be able to write and express themselves correctly? The best part of this is that I wasn’t really allowed to help them. I was told to take 3 points away for language errors overall, but not point out what they did wrong or comment on what they needed to improve. As a result, I get the following responses to one of the projects (see below). I am not including the questions, because they are irrelevant for the point I’m trying to make. Read the answers below and try to figure out if you would let this person teach your child. I would actually really love to know if you would.
- The research that the Smartville School District uses during the making is called the field experiment. The field experiment is a type of research that is use in real conditions and information and responses are being processed through the course of time into a data base that helps them acknowledged what is being handled in the experiment. Backing up to the Smartville School District situation, its experiment of the children who are receiving the benefits of the new curriculum ( a definition in which how teachers are given an objective to provide the education the children are required before the end of the year) are call the experimental group. While the children who receive the old curriculum would be call the “Control group” (a definition in which the children are receiving the education “normally” from the past knowledge).
- Mr. Jones completed a type of research that is called the correlational research. A student studies for his course instead of going out for the weekends brings a positive correlation for the student having high grades. For those that doesn’t follow, will have negative correlation that could cause low test grades and uneducated.
- Kohlberg’s has several “levels” in his theory. The first level of moral reasoning is called the pre-conventional level. Its covers most of the age range from preschool children to elementary students. Though there are some exceptional people that are shown in secondary schools and higher. Pre-conventional is when the individual can make their decisions more often by doing what’s best for themselves without the careless of others feelings. The second level of moral reasoning in Kohlberg’s theory is called conventional morality where it’s mostly revolves around junior high and high school students. This stage is when the individual makes the decision based on the people around them. The individual wants a strong, trusting relationship between his or her friends and significant other. The third and final level is called the post-conventional morality. A stage that revolves around college and other individual’s that has realize that the rules of society for appropriate behavior have a certain agreement’s to what others may ask for.
- In Piaget’s theory, Sallie is in what is considered as the concrete operational stage. She cannot provide the ideas of what an adult are supposed to act or be around. However, though she has a disability she is able to solve problem, create ideas, and she is able to see a relationships only if they involve objects that are recognizable. It’s also call seriation, an arrangement where you see a logical progression as the course of time continues. Although it’s a strong theory, Paget’s theory has a weakness which that not every child who are born in this world are the same.
- Episodic memory is where our we have a memory bank that holds our personal experiences that we have at least happen to our lives. For example; you remember where you put your wallet every day before you go to sleep. A Semantic memory is where the facts and general information are being saved into such as the principles, rules, laws, interest and how you execute them to solve problems. Last but not least, you have the procedural memory. A memory of where you have learned and use particular types of actions. For example; you learn how to ride a bike, walk for the first time, throwing a football, and running. Sallie would be able to use semantic memory to help her memorize the names of each state.