Week II: Reflection

What I have learned and could be applied to my students are as follows:
Before teaching, it would be great if a teacher and students can set agreements together. This can direct them to the same destination.

Telling students to read instruction or direction carefully before doing tasks or else they may redo them and this would waste time. Don’t jump into conclusion because when we missed some steps of the instruction, our work will not be like as expected.

Suggesting students to relax themselves in case they get obstacles. After taking some time to finish assignments and you still cannot do it, stop doing for a while and come back to it later. Sometimes helps from other people are needed.

Having reviewed Bloom’s Taxonomy, I gain more confidence in creating my learning plan for the next semester. In my department, we have never seriously discussed about how to write the learning objectives. What we do is just following the previous ones produced by other teachers which need further improvement for my instruction and students’ efficient learning. I will start by proposing the topic of writing objectives to my colleagues as one of my department meeting issues. It is more likely that they would be enthusiastic especially teachers with less teaching experience.

According to the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy, verbs suggested to use for writing learning objected, it appears that some words can be used for two levels, i.e. ‘summarize’ and ‘conclude’. The former is suggested to use for the level of understanding while the latter for applying and evaluating levels. Personally, both of the written verbs suggested have the same meaning and they should be used for the level of applying because students have to implement the information they learned for a new work. As noted on objective writing, affective objectives are difficult to write and assess; however, they are essential in my context because the affective domain is emphasized when students study general courses. We would like them to learn happily and be good citizen. Therefore, if there are some written verbs illustrated, it would be helpful.

Best,

Moo