Arjeta Lushi Group E

 I have read, heard and practiced  a lot of classroom  methods but one of the most familiar to me is PBL. As soon as I read about it my whole school life came to my mind. I remember, when I was a pupil our teacher asked us to make presentations with posters about different topics, usually those related to environment. We used to make drawings and write quotes about nature and its importance, and later on make the presentations.  With the passing of time projects became as a part of us and that is the reason why I consider it as the best way to help us ameliorate in a particular subject.    To be more concrete PBL students develop deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking, creativity, and communication skills in the context of doing an authentic, meaningful project.   Many students find schoolwork meaningless because they don't perceive a need to know what they're being taught. They are unmotivated by a teacher's suggestion that they should...

As technology becomes increasingly influential in education, methods of the learning process are changing also. The teacher centered system is changing into the student centered one, and so, the process of learning is becoming easier and a better way to develop a good way of learning is dominating. One of the ways educators are using to develop a better process of learning is by flipping classrooms(through online learning).  The previous seminar that we developed was based upon online teaching and I found it very comfortable and in the same way, attractive. The way our teacher developed the lesson made me think of how good it would be if in the future I do the same thing. I became aware of the difference to traditional teaching and I, somehow created an idea of the differences between them.  While a traditional classroom is teacher-centered, a flipped classroom is student centered. How?  By taking the lecture out of the classroom and bringing homework into the clas...

Constructivism As I read in the lecture and as I know from the previous lectures, constructivism relies on the premise that the act of learning is based on a process which connects new knowledge to pre-existing knowledge. I do not intend to go through the arguments over constructivism or to talk about its history but I would like to provide a personal reflection over it.    According to me Constructivist teaching allows the student to build their knowledge through questioning, and through experience.  They must experience it to understand it.  “It appears that knowledge is not a transferable commodity and communication not a conveyance”. Students are not empty vessels to be filled, and talking to them isn’t going to help them understand anything.      Constructivism encourages teachers to find out what their students already know, and to guide them as they ask questions and find the answers to those same questions.  Their role is not to i...

Multiple Intelligences I have always thought that people possess some intelligences, about three and none of them is related to the other, but when I heard the lecture I was interested to hear more about it and to go more inside this topic. Now,  I am aware of the nine kinds of intelligences and I would like to focus more on them. So, as we heard from the lecture, people possess 9 kinds of intelligences and from now on I am aware of the importance of MI in our future as teachers. Let’s list them as in the lecture: 1-Verbal-Linguistic Intelligences 2- Mathematical- Logical intelligences 3- Musical Intelligence 4- Visual- Spatial Intelligence 5- Bodily- Kinesthetic Intelligence 6- Interpersonal Intelligence 7- Intrapersonal Intelligence 8- Naturalist Intelligence 9- Existential Intelligence Each of us possesses all of the nine intelligences. Of course, the intelligences function together in ways unique to each person. Most of us fall somewhere in between two poles: T...