Monday, July 25, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Instructional Strategies.....
The strategies that I can not live without for teaching primary reading...
1) Comprehension: Knowing the W's of a story.... (Summarizing, predicting, asking questions, etc.)
2) Teaching Sight Words...(Decodable books, sight word bingo, put together books~"I See A"...?)
3) Read Aloud...(Students are able to see you model strategies)
4) Think-Pair-Share... ( I believe that it is important to teach these to the students at a young age so that they are able to start connecting in various ways with what they are reading....
5) Phonics.... (Flash cards, Chart paper for beginning rhymes, etc.)
1) Comprehension: Knowing the W's of a story.... (Summarizing, predicting, asking questions, etc.)
2) Teaching Sight Words...(Decodable books, sight word bingo, put together books~"I See A"...?)
3) Read Aloud...(Students are able to see you model strategies)
4) Think-Pair-Share... ( I believe that it is important to teach these to the students at a young age so that they are able to start connecting in various ways with what they are reading....
5) Phonics.... (Flash cards, Chart paper for beginning rhymes, etc.)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
Social Situation: Fitness Center
This past weekend, I chose to observe a social situation at the gym that I am a member of, XSport. I have been a member of this gym for over 6 years. I take classes at this gym, I have trained at this gym, and have spent countless hours of my days in this gym. Thankfully, that has given me the opportunity to observe some rather interesting characters at this gym.
The Actors: The actors of this gym are the members of they gym themselves as well in some situations the staff that works there as well. I often find the most interesting part of the gym being the free weight area. Now at this gym there are two sections of free weights and although might seem sexist... one is considered the area for "men" and the other lighter weights area is considered the area for women. However, I take it upon myself to use the area with some of the heavier weights when I do my work. It sometimes amazes me at the types of people that I see in this area... They are men trying to compete with other men for the the attention. Who's attention, I am not to sure...
The Activities: During this specific observation there was a group of men, one more muscular than the other. One specific man is much to big for anyone's own good... He needs to have the attention on him all of the time and so he chooses to wear clothes that I feel should be banned for the gym altogether. The man was simply doing barbell curls. Now I am not sure how much weight he can curl, I am sure it is an obscene amount but, it seems like all the men just flock to him so that they can help him or just watch and adore him. He did as many as he could by himself but then refused to stop until his "groupies" spotted him and even better he had a different set of "adoring fans" take the weights from him to put them back because they didn't want him to hurt his back. One guy said that he needed to focus on the muscle group that was being worked that day.
Overall, these men that I observe never cease to amaze me. The man continuously shocks me at the amount of crazy that he is able to go through but, this observation just proved that no matter what social group you are in, or what activity you are trying to accomplish, there is always going to be someone that the people generally flock to.... Now I don't know this man personally but, even after his activities I saw him help the others with their exercises so clearly he has a good heart :)
The Actors: The actors of this gym are the members of they gym themselves as well in some situations the staff that works there as well. I often find the most interesting part of the gym being the free weight area. Now at this gym there are two sections of free weights and although might seem sexist... one is considered the area for "men" and the other lighter weights area is considered the area for women. However, I take it upon myself to use the area with some of the heavier weights when I do my work. It sometimes amazes me at the types of people that I see in this area... They are men trying to compete with other men for the the attention. Who's attention, I am not to sure...
The Activities: During this specific observation there was a group of men, one more muscular than the other. One specific man is much to big for anyone's own good... He needs to have the attention on him all of the time and so he chooses to wear clothes that I feel should be banned for the gym altogether. The man was simply doing barbell curls. Now I am not sure how much weight he can curl, I am sure it is an obscene amount but, it seems like all the men just flock to him so that they can help him or just watch and adore him. He did as many as he could by himself but then refused to stop until his "groupies" spotted him and even better he had a different set of "adoring fans" take the weights from him to put them back because they didn't want him to hurt his back. One guy said that he needed to focus on the muscle group that was being worked that day.
Overall, these men that I observe never cease to amaze me. The man continuously shocks me at the amount of crazy that he is able to go through but, this observation just proved that no matter what social group you are in, or what activity you are trying to accomplish, there is always going to be someone that the people generally flock to.... Now I don't know this man personally but, even after his activities I saw him help the others with their exercises so clearly he has a good heart :)
Friday, July 1, 2011
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