MAT 671 assignment 3A

One event during my education where I was inspired to perform was as a fourth grader during an oral language competition. I memorized a poem titled “My father’s hands” it was a long poem. I love poems so It was easy for me to memorize and I did ok reciting it, but I was nervous in front of a crowd. I still like the opportunity I had to recite the poem and take steps in overcoming my stage freight. After that experience, I was at ease in assignments that required me to present in front of the class.  

One event during my education that completely deflated me was in college when I had to create a power point and present in class. During my beginning years of college, I had no idea about technology or how to even begin to create a power point. The assignment was stressful and overwhelming. Once I completed and presented my assignment, I was glad that I did not allow the assignment to defeat me. I completed the assignment well and was grateful that my professor had us complete an assignment using this tool that I currently use frequently.

From my experiences as a student, I think I will encourage, guide and offer learning opportunities that will help my students take educational risk. I want to provide learning experiences that are new to my students and help them feel confident in completing the assignment.

                    

Learning style surveys

Hello, my name is Ana Nunez, I love being part of a child's learning experience and I hope that my teaching strategies and learning opportunities offer fun and engaging experiences for my students. I try to make my lessons appropriate, and take into consideration the different learning styles of my students. To meet the needs of diverse learners, I get to know my students and learn their strengths and areas of need and create lessons that are engaging and that my students can relate to and be active participants.

After taking the several surveys, I discovered that my personality was of a facilitator, my teaching style was of a facilitator and my learning style was collaborative. I think my personality and my relationship with my students will be one of open communication and problem solving. I like to get to know my students and find solutions to help them better understand a concept and master a goal. I think my teaching and learning styles will help my students feel confident in asking questions, using their critical thinking skills and communicating with their peers in group learning. The different teaching strategies I will use, will help diverse learners and help my students be successful.

Annotated Bibliography

MAT 670 Assignment 4.B

Book choice: Gregory, G. Kaufeldt, M. Mattos, M.  (2016). Best Practices at Tier 1 Daily  Differentiation for Effective Instruction. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

After reviewing my classmates book, I noticed that I was the only one who chose this book, as a course book choice. There are many books out on the market that cover best practice strategies, but I chose this book for the variety of strategies. There are three authors that contribute to this book, with education backgrounds. There are 7 points that are covered in this book; collaborative core instruction, creating brain friendly environments, finding each student’s learning sweet spot, developing a powerful core curriculum, differentiating instruction, using data to inform instruction and the last is building cognitive rigor, depth & complexity. Each of these topics is thoroughly covered and emphasize on good teaching practices. Each topics offers tools and strategies that teachers can use to help in their teaching and to help students be successful in learning.

I enjoyed reading the information in this book and using it as a course book throughout this class, I would highly recommend reading this book for the useful information that it contains and how it pertains to education and teaching practices.