Activity 7

collaborative learning

This activity was very productive and I learned a few things which I will mention.
collaborative learning is good and teachers are encouraged to incorporate the strategy in their teaching.

collaborative learning can only be successful if teachers plan and plan diligently.

teachers should not place students into random groups and give an assignment and think it would work as cooperative learning.

when cooperative learning is done right, the students learn from each other, become more social and when they work together they solve problems quicker and easier.

I definitely enjoy the readings of vygotsky and plan to put them into practice more often but with my revised knowledge of how things should done properly.

Activity 6

Learning about Vygotsky's concept of social development was very refreshing to me as a teacher, I learned about his ideas about helping students verbalise and also scaffolding. In addition to this, the activity I really enjoyed was the brainstorm and even shared some of brainstorm ideas with  some of my co workers at school. I will encourage any teacher to employ Vygotsky's  concepts in their teaching especially dealing with older children.

Module 1 Activity 5

Developmental Psychology

I must admit that the readings were  long but it was not a waste of  time at all, Based on my readings I learned quite a lot which i would have suspected when I began the activity. I was reminded that as teachers we must not only focus on the students' academic needs but a child develops in other ways also and we must cater for them.  At my school we do try to focus on  all the needs of the child developmental needs but the parents and community need to play a part also. As I go through these readings I am informed much more and I will use this information to my advantage as a class teacher.