A good movie about family and friend

what is family? what is friend?

you will know it after you watch the movie Over the Hedge

 

 

 

 

 

 

weekly reflection (7) on week 13

This week is a busy week.

 

We have to do a research paper on psycholinguistics, which made my group members crazy. First, we don’t know how to write a research paper because it is the first time for us to write it. Second, we don’t know what kind of topic we can chose, because there are a lot of things we can find.

 

Tonight, we discussed again, finally found our way.

I hope things will get better tomorrow.

Weekly reflection (6) on week 12

                                                          

Last week we presented the lesson which apply INFUSION approach of teaching thinking. I think my team mate Betty did a good job, because we applyed infusion approach in the lesson of The Dead Crow. Although there arent so many people really listen to our presentation. I dont think it is good to do your own things when others doing their presentation. it is really not respect to others.

I also did my micro-teaching last week. I was a little bit neverous before i present. When i was presenting, i enjoyed it very much. i was so excited after i did my micro-teaching. because i can have a rest.

 There are a lot to learn, if i really want to be a good teacher.

totoro–one of my favourite movies

 

If you are sad, watch this movie. This movie can make you happy laughing like a baby.

 If you think you are too maturity, watch this movie. It can bring you back to a 3 year old chirld.                      

                                                                       

           

                                         

   

Weekly reflection (5) on week 11

      

Last week, my group did the lesson plan on infusion approach. In my opinion, infusion approach is Expert Robert Ennis defines infusion as “deep, thoughtful” instruction in subject matter content in which the general principles of thinking are made explicit. infusion involves more than “getting thinking going.” It also involves direct teacher intervention to help students keep it going and enable it to “go better” and this includes direct instruction in the cognitive skills needed to engage successfully in complex thinking in whatever subject it is being applied. We can give students questions by go through BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY :from lower-order thinking skill (Remembering Understanding Applying) to higher-order thinking skill(.Analysing Evaluating Creating)

Weekly reflection (4) on week 10

            

This week we made the presentation of teaching of thinking skills. I have learnt a lot by share with others. I like some of my course mates’ presentation very much. Watch them presenting made me have a more clear idea about Direct teaching of thinking, Infusion approach and Immersion approach. The difference between Infusion approach and Immersion approach is clear to me.

 One of my friends’ presentations is very good. They got very good example in the presentation. This can make it easy for us to understand.

    

daily reflection (2) on the lecture today 03/03/2008

Today I had a lecture about three skills about teaching of thinking. They are Direct teaching of thinking, Infusion approach and immersion approach.

Direct teaching of thinking is in case for concentrating efforts to improve students thinking in discrete courses whose exclusive subject is thinking. So, we can consider it as separate thinking skills teaching. Just go directly to the point. For example, what will you have for the lunch of tomorrow, rice or noodle? You only have these two choices. You chose rice or noodle, this is direct thinking.

What about the infusion approach? Expert Robert Ennis defines infusion as “deep, thoughtful” instruction in subject matter content in which the general principles of thinking are made explicit. In my opinion, this is the sequence of infusion approach: First, teacher give students a task, leave them several minutes to do some activities, discuss about this task. Then, let them present their achievement. Finally, make a conclusion of the skills students used in the activities, the steps. Reinforcement is necessary.

Will, the immersion approach is quite different. The Immersion is usually offered as an alternative to infusion. According to Ennis, immersion is thought-provoking subject-matter instruction in which the principles of complex thinking are not made explicit. Let me give you an example. First, teacher give students a task, leave them several minutes to do some problem solving activities, discuss about this task. Then, let the students to do reflect of the activities. Third, let the students continue discuss.

 The different between infusion approach and immersion approach is that infusion approach has reinforcement and let the students share with each other, while the immersion approach is not. The immersion approach cant use as the main skill for most of the students.

weekly reflection (3) on last week

                        

Last week was a very happy week, although I have met some terrible things. I have learnt a lot last week about how to manage my blog. It is very helpful to link to my friends’ blog, so that we can learn from each other. comparing is a good thinking skill for us in laerning and study. Link to our lecturer’s blog can make it easy to ask questions immediately, as questioning is also a good way for a learner to improve himself. And we may meet other questions when we build our blog. Such as comments can’t appear. Now I know why. I delete the tick on the option Comment author must have a previously approved comment  and An administrator must always approve the comment under Before a comment appears in options of discussion. I changed the custom image header, too.In order to find a good custom image header, I have to compare one picture with other pictures. I should analyse which one is the most suitable one. I also have to do some select and classify when I manage my blog set different posts in different categories. I hope you will like it.   

                         

daily reflection (1) on the lecture today 25/02/2008

                                                

The internet can help a learner to learn. Bloging is one of the ways. I think Im a visual learner, because Im sensitive to pictures, forms and diagrams.

So, build a blog can give me an easy track to learn thinking skills. In order to build a blog, I have to arrange my time, make a plan on when and how to build my blog. Chose a theme is very important. I have to compare one theme with other themes. I have to adjust the articles I have put on my blog, whether they are suitable. For a visual learner like me, it is so comfortable to put everything in order, bases on the classifying. The beautiful and lively pictures also can help me in learning. I like to read in a quiet environment. And I like to read essay which is well organized not only the structure, but also the typeset. We can go to others’ blog can view different opinions, thoughts and discuss. Compare with others’ blog is also a way to improve myself.

 In one word, a visual learner can benefit from build a blog.            

                      

weekly reflection (2) on last week

This week I finished the task Assoc Prof Dr Kamisah Osman gave to us. It is to find one journal article  about the teaching of thinking skills in language teaching. Write a reflection of all the procedures employed in the process of finding the article.I did it by my heart, and I thought it is good. I involved a lot of metacognitive skills in my reflection. but after lecturer gave us some comments of this task, I found I missed some thinking skills and they are important for a person to solve a problem in everyday life. I think  this is what I should learn during this semester, this is the purpose of this course.

this is my reflection:

Reflection    In order to find a journal article about the teaching of thinking skills in language teaching，I did these things: First, arranging and planning my study.  Made a plan when and how to do the assignment. Recalling my previously knowledge about thinking skills and metacognitive skills. Arranging my time, when to go to the library, when to search on the internet. Second, read the request of the assignment, analysing what is the assignment asking for in order to identifying the purpose of this assignment. My course mates and I formed a group to discuss the main point of the assignment. We even had a mini debate about the main point of this assignment. I made a hypothesising. If I were the lecturer, what do I want my students to do by doing this assignment? I broke the request “the teaching of thinking skills in language teaching” into three parts to explore the understanding and relationship. The request is emphases on thinking skills, so I should find an article about thinking skills. The thinking skill is not in math teaching, science teaching or PE teaching, it is in language teaching. I set my goal. Third, go to library to select the proper journal. I selected the journal about education, thinking skills or language teaching, not others like art journal by check the name of the journal. I got two journals, one is named Educational Journal and the other one is British Journal of Educational Studies. I compared these two journals by just look at the name of the journal. I found that both of the two journals are what I want. There is an article named Teaching English in Educational Journal. I was judging the text by its name and the content. It’s about language teaching. But the thinking skill is never showed in it. So I put it away. I also searched on the internet, and find an article called Teaching Thinking Skills. I read the introduction of this article. I also read the introduction of the article Expanding Young People’s Capacity to Learn.  I compared these two articles, find the similarities, both are talking about thinking skills. I also made a contrast between these two articles. Expanding Young People’s Capacity to Learn explained the teaching of thinking skill in language teaching more in details. It explained Transfer Thinking in details. So I prefer to the second article. Fourth, judge the article. Do extensive reading in order to evaluating each article. I got the outlining of these two articles. I compared the two articles in details. Expanding Young People’s Capacity to Learn is talking about how to make students learn language more effectively by teaching students different thinking skills. Finally, I made my decision. After I did the intensive reading on the article Expanding Young People’s Capacity to Learn, I selected the article Expanding Young People’s Capacity to Learn.