Gwen+and+Jonathan

Discuss with your partner and respond to each versus statement.

Teaching vs Learning

- Learning implies being student-centered and teaching seems to be more teacher-centered. - When learning is the focus, students are in control. Students should be led to take more ownership for their learning with this approach. - Learning focuses on students understanding the content and demonstrating their understanding, whereas teaching is more about how the teacher delivers the content.

Content Focused Design vs Results Focused Design

-Effective content could be used in all areas, where as with results it seems to be more tesing centered in some cases. But it ould vary based on purpose of lesson by instructor. We think that they are closely inter-woven. A good example wuld be a mixture of both.

Activity Oriented/Coverage Design vs Achievement Oriented Design The activity is more than just activity but one that can be used later for prior knowledge and scaffolded as student matures

Hands On Design vs Minds On Design Hands on would be more of concept to a finish product where as with the mind design it is more conceptual analysis. Hands is learning by doing where minds learning by just thinking,

EQ: "How could the Backward Design process help teachers shift from "what and how" to teach a concept to "what is the learning and how do I know they learned?"

I think when teachers start to use the Backward Design Process it not only benefits the teacher but it also benefits the student because it gives the student ownership to their learning and allows for them to life long learners opposed to course code recallers. I think as a teacher it makes me have to really reflect and regroup on my own practices to see if what I am doing is just a "quick fix" or did I help the student develop and understand skills and knowledge that will allow for growth passed just one assignment/assessmen, is the activity jsut some cute arts and crafts project or does ot really make a difference. I think that personally this could be hard because this is not our norm in terms of how we have prepared and developed lessons/activities in the past. I also think that this will allow for more collaboration between teachers and content areas. Honestly I like the idea but I think that we may need additional modeling/developing with this type of planning in terms of is the activity really producing the outcome I hae deisred or is just another activity.