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How might you use what you learned in this lesson in your school/classroom?
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I feel that it is important for each lesson to (a) tell students the objectives, (b) complete the lesson activities, and (c) repeat the objectives that were covered. Each year, try to improve. Each year, try to make the lessons more cohesive and more Biblically integrated.
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Hearing the difference in traditional and process/mastery orientation made me think of the different ways I try to teach in my classroom. I have a curriculum guide that “guides” my lesson plans that I use and try to cover each year. Although if there is a teaching moment that has nothing to do with the curriculum and I feel God wants the course to go there, we do.
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Understanding the different models of education helps me to sift through the approach I am currently taking and to have a balance of a healthy approach of teaching with an eternal perspective along with the standard requirements.
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Standards are placed to have and guideline to go by for everyone. Of course I have to teach on standard, but I like to teach the whole student and on their level. The standard will be taught, but at the level of understanding for the student; as each student learns differently. Standards are just a starting line, I like for my students to push themselves to go beyond and master the standards and learn more.
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I believe have standards in schools makes sense. We have the ability now to be in constant contact with schools all around the world and we have more transferring of students from one school to another more than we did when the Pilgrims settled. It is beneficial to have an agreed upon set of standards that students should know by a certain age. Setting standards doesn’t limit what we can teach, it just gives a minimum of what a student should know and helps build upon their knowledge year after year.