Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Learning Questions

Group 1 - TOPICS: New Insights in Child Development and Learning
                                  Basic Assumptions underlying Authentic Curriculum and Assessment

Questions:
1.How does the researches about early brain growth and development affects the new insights in Child development and learning?
2. How does environmental, emotional, sociological, physical, and psychological stimuli affects learners success in learning?
3. Is there any connection between learning theories and styles and authentic assesssment? specify.
4. How will you relate the 3 kinds of knowledge in acquiring knowledge of a child?
5. Based on Briand (1978) " basic assumption seems to be that children'sminds if planted in fertile soil will grow quite naturally on their own." How does it relate to the child as well as to the teacher?


Group 2 - TOPICS: Determine if the Additional Info is needed
                                  Internalizing Ongoing Authentic Assessment

Questions:
1. Why is it necessary for the teachers to learn more strategies and techniques in their further discussion with diversely cultural children?
2.How can a teacher handle children from diverse culture in relevance with the strategies and techniques in individual aspects of development?
3. Why is there a necessity for the teachers to have assistance in understanding the continuous and interrelated nature of learning and assessment?
4. How will you encourage the students if somehow they fail to develop the feeling of self-esteem and efficacy?
5. When does preventing analysis paralysis should be used or takes place?

Group 3 - TOPIC: Circular Questioning

Questions:
1. How does circular questioning affects each individuals within the system?
2. Literally speaking, we cannot call a broken family as a family, therefore, can we still apply circular questioning in this case? If yes, how?, If no, why?
3. How does the in-session process transforms awareness from the family as a system extending to presentation of problems?
4. For the beginning practitioners, how will they create a sense of movement along the continuum?
5. In presenting a genogram extending the tome line, how they will relate learning on the process of presenting problems in meaningful way?

Monday, November 22, 2010

first activity

I. Title : The Professionals Revealed
II. Story :
     
           " Perseverance and Determination results to success. " This is what I keep in my mind and brought me in this place. I'm Ron, a doctor and this are my co-workers in a hospital where we are treating a lot of illness, diseases and other thing that can cured by Science. At first, I was very glad that I work in this kind of hospital. All the doctors here are known by there excellence. And I feel that I am one of them. But as the time goes by, I saw my difference to other. By the way, the president of this hospital is my father's friend. Since he knows me and he has debt within my father, he took me to laid my service in this hospital even I failed a sort of examinations to become a doctor.Even I don't want to do this, still I cheat. I cheat to others, and I cheat to myself.  I see my difference to this doctors, they know more things than me, they are more excellent and skillful than me and the worst thing is that they just passed examinations once. But me , I'm just good enough.but cannot be considered as excellent. In spite of this, I work a lot, I work morning and night. I spend my rest days to read more and more and now, I climb the highest peak, my goal in life, and that's to a line up my self in the professionals .

III. Strength and weaknesses
    a. Weak points:   He uses others position and cheats to work in the said hospital.

    b. Strong points:  He works hard to reach his goals even he is weaker than others.

IV. Relating:
          We all have goals that we want to achieve in life. We set things because we want to reach others expectation. We want something to be proud of . And especially we want to feel the fulfillment that lie within us.We don't want rooms for mistakes. Many people thought of this kind of thing even I. But as I grow old, I realized that I am learning because of my mistakes and as others to, I think even we failed many times, it should not lay us down but besides learn through this experience. Even though I am still in the part of my life that I am preparing myself to a more challenges I still relate in this story and it gives me idea that there is nothing wrong when we keep on trying and trying to succeed.

V. Lesson
           The highest peak that we set in our mind is to achieve our goals and expectations. I realized that we should try our best if we want to make it in the top. But it doesn't mean that we need to cheat to reach that. Although we cannot avoid to cheat ( I think that's one of the human's nature that we cannot avoided) lets try not to step out to others just to have the goals that we set (crab mentality). But to surpass what we have and keep on thinking that we can do better than what we have right now. ANd one more thing that I realized is that nothing in this world is fair. All things are made to be unfair to others but this should not stop us in doing more things.

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