Friday, October 12, 2007

most effective school setting = Derrick Smoak

Re: Week 2 DQ 1-Due Thursday
Posted: 10/11/2007 07:31 PM, by: Derrick Smoak ( cdsconcepts@email.phoenix.edu )




How would you describe the most effective school setting you have ever observed


As of the best classroom i ever observed was back when i was in college. In Big Rapids, MI I was observing a classrrom which dealth with television and visual arts. The instructor was from L.A. and he also work on plenty Hollywood sets. He had a lot of creative examples to use in his classroom. He had very interactive approaches in his teaching. For an example: (Below is a example of a typically classroom activity)

The Course MWF

Mondays

Monday's were used as a reflection for the past week and also the upcoming week. The group would write out short-term goals for the week. For an example: Student a wants to achieve a higher score on a test and the teacher would provide a weekly brief summary of the proformance of the student. After the student would get the information he would plan how they can achieve better. Then the professor would give out work for the week.

Wed

This day was group day. All of the classroom would be divided into group. (In the first day of class the professor gave out evaluation paper where teams would know what there strengths and weakness were) He allowed the class to pick there own group members. He would ask the group to know three different things they didn't know about the person. After getting to know each other the teams would take turns introducting each othere. I found that to be effect because it allowed the group to get more personal and it allowed the groups to proform a stronger cohesiveness..

Fri.

This day was for presentation or movie day. Either the teacher would bring in some of his own movies or the group would summit there own. After the presentation the class would speak of the pro's & con's. This is good because it promots positive experience. It also allowed member to get positive feedback.


Reflection

The Class was great because all of the students passed and they gained the knowledge of working with otheres.

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