Monday, July 16, 2007

Post #6

What is curriculum? Curriculum is knowledge, skills, and performance standards that students are expected to acquire in certain grade levels. Teachers are expected to teach their students to know the curriculum. Technology is integrated in classroom to help teachers achieve goals in teaching the curriculum to their students. Some schools have a computer lab, computers in the classroom, and internet access. I learned what KWL Charts is (Know, what they Want to Know, and then, Will Learn). KWL is another pretty cool acronym I can add on my list.

Theories are something that I have learned in numerous classes. Learning why people behave in certain ways, observing behaviors, learning from others, and interpreting conditions fascinates me. Bandura, Vygotsky, Skinner, Pavlov would be very proud to know that their work and contributions are still being taught and used in the 21st century.

I learned that there is no escaping behaviorism and psychology.

4 comments:

d said...

I guess I can never forget Bandura, Skinner, Vygotsky, and Pavlov.

Kay said...

Psychology and Behaviorism.... They will be with us forever!

d said...

Yes, they will. We need them in to function in this crazy world.

Anonymous said...

KWL was pretty interesting to me too.