reflection

On March 23, the chapters we discussed were chapter 10 and chapter 11. Chapter 10 was presented by Watsatree. She presented the chapter step by step just like an expert teacher. It was interesting. The chapter was about strategies for instruction leading to learning procedures. Procedures are the steps, methods and orders followed to learn something. Chapter 11 was presented by Miriam. It was Strategies for instruction leading to principle learning. Principles show or describe relationships between concepts. An example would be: when something is heated; then it expands. The heating and the expansion are the two concepts and their relationship is the principle. Miriam described this using her own examples which she learned from her experience as a teacher at different levels. It was very interesting. When I was reading the chapters I found two questions, one a wrong mathematical example which Dr. Gall helped us to identify where the mistake was ( a typographical error); and the other was on expository approach. The second question was answered by discussion in the class and its meaning was understood to be as 'showing'. Then what we need to do for the rest of the semester was discussed and the instructor elaborated that we can do in group on the Alignment of Objectives assignment that one group was doing earlier.