October
Monthly Summary:
The month of October was incredibly packed in this class.
We had the program investigations and then the syllabus designs that were
due. I continued to focus my efforts on
the functional workings of the brain and how they relate to student
learning. The programs I reviewed gave
me some good ideas with regard to ways of stimulating learning and how to take
advantage of theories that relate to brain based learning. What I love about my topic is that there are
so many different directions that a person can take to approach a theory of
learning. I sometimes found it hard to
remain focused on any one idea to create a well thought out process.
I
was challenged with turning some of my theory based ideas into actual usable
practices. This came into focus when I went
from the program investigation to the actual syllabus design. I think for the lion share of this course I have
been thinking in terms of theory and very focused on the brain and not asking
myself how what I am doing would be put into practice in the field. When designing my syllabus I had to take a
step back and really question what my takeaways had been and how I wanted to
push them to the next level. I finally
did pull it all together and came up with a program that I could relate to my
everyday life and my passion for exercise and fitness.
The
next step in this process is to find an academic to review my syllabus and get
their feedback with regard to my work. I
am worried that I won’t find the 2 required in the time I have to get it
done. Hopefully I will find a few
willing participants in the next few days that can help me with some quick
feedback. Shortly after that we will
have our final paper due so I am really going to be working hard to get that
done. I have really enjoyed this course
I am really thinking this topic might make a great thesis if I can keep it going.
Sometimes it is hard to think about how to put our knowledge based ideas into real life practice, but once we put little puzzles together it makes a lot more sense. The program investigation gives us more insights of what others have done and we could use that as reference. I am glad we had that assignment prior to syllabus design.
ReplyDeleteWilliam,
ReplyDeleteI feel that you have such a passion for what you are doing! It's exciting and motivating for me. Continue your hard work and I think you will be so pleased with the outcome. We're almost finished!!
Dawn