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Assignment: Human Development and Learning in Instructional Contexts- Teaching Journal Installment
The Teaching Journal in LSE 511 is intended to provide you with an opportunity to pause, reflect, and integrate your developing knowledge of the research on student learning and the implications for teaching practices.
Teaching Journal
Topics: Modules Reviewed
Installment
Synthesize concepts and principles: Socio-cultural contexts of learning; developmental milestones in cognition, social, and moral development; motivational processes in learning; peer relationships in the classroom
Modules
Instructions for Teaching Journal
A. Review readings and materials addressed in the three modules pertaining to the installment. Be sure to review developmental trends highlighted in each chapter.
B. Review discussion postings in the same modules
C. Select key big ideas and principles addressed in the module materials and discussions
D. Use the prompts provided for each Teaching Journal installment to aid your selection concepts and to focus and organize your reflections.
E. Explain the significance of the big idea and principles you selected and their implication for teaching practice
a. In this explanation, make connections among the big ideas, principles, and teaching practices across the three modules addressed
b. Make personal connections to draw original implications for teaching practice
F. Complete a double spaced, 5 page (approximately) Teaching Journal Installment by the due date provided in the syllabus and course schedule.
TJ-Installment
Effective teachers must be aware of and actively consider the many contexts in which learners grow and learn. Context influences learning and learners influence their contexts. Review the big ideas and principles in Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 and associated module materials. Use the research reported and your own background experience to address the following prompts:
Question I. Describe some of the wider contextual influences and interactions that impact students' cognitive, social, and moral development?
Question II. What influences or conditions can help or hinder students' motivation in the classroom?
Question III. Consider the developmental trends in social-emotional learning. Describe two or three ways in which you might design your classroom learning environment to scaffold and promote students social-emotional development? Why would they be effective?
Question IV. How can the peer culture in a classroom promote learning for the grade level you plan to teach? What strategies might you use to facilitate peer relationships in the classroom?