Blog #2 Self Directed Learning Feedly
For this week, I read two posts from the educational blogs Edutopia.org and gettingsmart.com.
The first post is On Becoming More than Preparing: 10 Tips on Developing Humans by Tom Vander and Mary Ryerse from Edutopia.com blog. This post is about the importance of social emotional learning (SEL), it means knowing how to do teamwork, be critical thinkers, taking the right decisions. As teachers, we must recognize that students need to learn these skills and abilities. One way for teachers to teach SEL is to provide supportive relationships that make learning an engaging experience for students. The authors suggest to teachers that they can help students increase their social emotional learning by focusing on trends such as smart, action-oriented and mobile. Although it is good to advise students about the skills that they need to master to be successful adults, it is better yet to let students practice and gain these future new skills now. For example, creating more group work activities where they can be exposed to these real world skills. The article points out that just knowing is not enough, students need real time doing. Therefore, teachers should take to get know their students and provide more personalized instruction on subjects when students are struggling. Overall the blog post shows a different approach on how teachers can help students become better learns. Teachers must recognize that students’ social-emotional skills also contribute on how students learn.
The next blog post is Public Speaking: Oracy Skills for the Real World from Edutopia blog. I learn that it is important for students to be exposed to public speaking since an early age. School 21 is located in London and it is a public school. Students learn to develop their oracy skills since their primary grades. According to the post, oracy is the ability to speak well and a teachable skill. School 21 has successfully implemented public speaking into their curriculum. It is important to understand how speaking is crucial in students’ lives in their school to their future careers. How can students be motivated to develop their oracy skills? First, students must understand that their voices do matter. Then teachers help and guide students to find their voice and express their ideas in political debates. Students spend time on research, writing, and practicing with classmates their speeches for the final debate. These political debates include classmates and experts from the fields to judge the students’ speeches. In the end, students are learning an invaluable lesson, feeling confident about raising their voices and express their thinking by framing their speeches depending on the audience. Public speaking is a necessary and convenient skill for the real world. In the post, readers can find out more about the public speaking framework and steps on how to integrate oracy skills in school.
The following are the links to the blog posts if you are interesting in reading more about these topics:
The first post is On Becoming More than Preparing: 10 Tips on Developing Humans by Tom Vander and Mary Ryerse from Edutopia.com blog. This post is about the importance of social emotional learning (SEL), it means knowing how to do teamwork, be critical thinkers, taking the right decisions. As teachers, we must recognize that students need to learn these skills and abilities. One way for teachers to teach SEL is to provide supportive relationships that make learning an engaging experience for students. The authors suggest to teachers that they can help students increase their social emotional learning by focusing on trends such as smart, action-oriented and mobile. Although it is good to advise students about the skills that they need to master to be successful adults, it is better yet to let students practice and gain these future new skills now. For example, creating more group work activities where they can be exposed to these real world skills. The article points out that just knowing is not enough, students need real time doing. Therefore, teachers should take to get know their students and provide more personalized instruction on subjects when students are struggling. Overall the blog post shows a different approach on how teachers can help students become better learns. Teachers must recognize that students’ social-emotional skills also contribute on how students learn.
The next blog post is Public Speaking: Oracy Skills for the Real World from Edutopia blog. I learn that it is important for students to be exposed to public speaking since an early age. School 21 is located in London and it is a public school. Students learn to develop their oracy skills since their primary grades. According to the post, oracy is the ability to speak well and a teachable skill. School 21 has successfully implemented public speaking into their curriculum. It is important to understand how speaking is crucial in students’ lives in their school to their future careers. How can students be motivated to develop their oracy skills? First, students must understand that their voices do matter. Then teachers help and guide students to find their voice and express their ideas in political debates. Students spend time on research, writing, and practicing with classmates their speeches for the final debate. These political debates include classmates and experts from the fields to judge the students’ speeches. In the end, students are learning an invaluable lesson, feeling confident about raising their voices and express their thinking by framing their speeches depending on the audience. Public speaking is a necessary and convenient skill for the real world. In the post, readers can find out more about the public speaking framework and steps on how to integrate oracy skills in school.The following are the links to the blog posts if you are interesting in reading more about these topics:
Jessica,
ReplyDeleteI think that students need to know how to work with a group of people because that will be reality for them when they go out into the work force. They need to learn that social aspect of working with different personalities and learning to give and take. The more practice we provide them in the classroom will only better prepare them for a successful future.
Hi Jessica,
ReplyDeleteI also selected the article on Oracy from School 21. It also caught my attention because I know that public speaking is such a difficult skill to develop when it is not directly taught, modeled and practice. It is also a skill that student will need in the real world and will help them be better prepared for the challenges of the 21st Century.
Jessica,
ReplyDeleteThe two articles that you shared are very interesting. I read both of them and both point out to very important skills that every teacher should have; 1. the aspect of the SEL (social emotional learning), because students should be learning how to work as teams. And 2. public speaking skills, which is something that students will be doing in the later years of their education and professional careers. Thanks for the sharing!
I agree that students need to develop their oral skills and as teachers we need to think of creative and comfortable ways for our students to be able to share their ideas and be proud of them. In her blog, Susana Ugarte shared an idea of having students write a book report and then create a video presentation that they can share with their class about the book. It is a good way to help shy students share their ideas freely while practicing their oral skills.
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