Blog 10 I will use surveys as a teacher to find out what activities students find the most effective. Surveys are also helpful for receiving feedback from students at the end of the semester or year. Surveys could help me figure out what students want to review, and what material they feel confident about. Reporting grades into Excel will help me assess students's strengths and weaknesses. Excel also makes grading more time efficient. I plan on teaching high school and college history. I will have a lot of students, therefore surveys and Excel reporting will make it much easier to stay organized. I really enjoyed reading the first blogs on my classmates's pages. I liked learning about everyone's goals and majors. I also enjoyed learning about people's varying backgrounds in technology. Most of us started out this class with background knowledge from social media and Microsoft. I liked hearing about my classmates's opinions on th...
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Journal 9 "The Flipped Classroom" is the idea that teaching should be accessed outside of class often online and at home. It deals with bringing homework and questions into the classroom and allows students to review outside of class at home. I had a really good history teacher that used this method and recorded herself teaching a slideshow and then posted it online for students to take notes on at home. Open Educational Resources publish lesson plans and courses online. The online resource linked below discusses how OER can be used for free while improving the quality of learning within the United States. This link also explains ideas about how Online Educational Resources can be used. Online Educational Resources article I learned how to record myself speaking for a PowerPoint slideshow from Assignment 4. I liked how I was able to pick the topic that I was teaching, but I had technical difficulties with recording so I don't know if this meth...