Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

the five stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.

Image
Bruce Tuckman introduced and identified the five stages of a team development. These steps are the forming stage, storming the stage, norming stage, performing stage, and adjourning stage in that chronological order. Furthermore, these steps usually apply universally to all teams/groups regardless of the team members’ demographics, purpose, location, goals, and cultures. In the forming stage, the team is just starting to come together and is characterized by anxiety and uncertainty. In storming, the group is characterized by considerable opposition and conflict. In the norming stage, the group's activities become a unified component. In the performing stage, there is usually high productivity, and the members are supportive, competent, supportive, and loyal. In the adjourning stage, the group needs to have fulfilled its goals; the group is to be closed on a positive note, but members usually feel uncertain and insecure about the future. The adjourning phase is characteristic...
Read more

Dr. Lilian Katz Quotes

Image
"In both cooperative learning and project work. The teacher  encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each others efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds  of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction"  Dr. Lilian Katz "Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words." Dr. Lilian Katz
Read more

Colleagues, Professors, and what I take away from the program

Image
Deeply felt learning from this program This program will be significant in my endeavors and disposition as an educator or a professional in the field of early childhood education. I have been able to learn the following important aspects: ·        The essence of having a community of practice in your endeavors. A community of practice should involve persons whom share the same passion or concern for something they are undertaking. This community will enable them interact and share ideas and challenges. It helps in developing one’s practice through methods such as problem solving, discussing developments, seeking the experiences of others, reusing assets, visiting other members, requests for information, coordination and synergy, mapping knowledge and identifying gaps. ·        The methods of content presentation/instruction in the classroom. Some of the notable methods are lecturing, simulations, use of visual aids,...
Read more