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Video Analysis Tool Scaffolding
Danielle Tumanov
Liberty University
Education 500
September 27, 2017
Video Analysis Tool: Scaffolding Assignment
After analyzing the teaching video, describe 3 different strategies the teacher used to facilitate student learning.
In the video there were three strategies that stood out the most to me, allowing me to understand a bit better what it takes to be a good teacher, one that student can learn from and further understand a subject. The first strategy that stuck out to me was staying away while students are working well, and only stepping in when encouragement is needed. This strategy allows students to actively work through problems. Secondly, allowing students to know “Its okay to be wrong”. This strategy applies to not only the students but the teacher as well, and not only the classroom but in life as well. If students can work through a problem and understand the underlying process, thinking and the concept that is the main goal, not necessarily the correct answer. The third strategy is active learning, also considered learning from their peers. Lessons can be taught by the teacher or the textbook but sometimes students are able to grasp the knowledge and understanding better when it is explained to them by their peers.
Imagine you are teaching a lesson on a topic of your choice. Describe the lesson and articulate what types of teaching/learning strategies you would use to scaffold learning and to facilitate learning for your students in your own classroom?
The lesson that I would teach would be multiplication tables. I would ask the students to show me in the most basic of forms how they get to their final answer, for example 3x2=____ and the work that could be shown is 3+3=6 or counted by scratches on the paper, anything to show me how they are mentally coming to their answer. I would allow for the students to speak with other at the their table to bounce learning techniques off of eachother, as we all have different ways of getting the final answer in anything, especially math, however they would not be allowed to share answers. Also, using the “its okay to be wrong” technique that was shown in the video, I would allow this because if the student can show the work that they are doing I will know where the trouble lays and how to appreciate it for the next time, just work through the problem so that you can understand the steps and the process.
Now consider the biblical approach to education to inform your thoughts on this topic. Consider a passage of Scripture and/or a fruit of the spirit to support your approach to implementing these teaching and learning strategies.
The biblical approach that I choose is learning from mistakes, as I found that to be such a good lesson in the video. “All Scripture is breather out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16, English Standard Version). This passage says that it is okay to make mistakes and that over time, through reproof and correction it leads to righteousness, or deeper understanding of the subject if applied in the terms of school work, or anything for that matter. As many of us may have grown up hearing “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”, don’t quit, work through it and understand it, that is the best way to not only get to the correct answer of a problem, solution or issue, but to fully gather the correct process to get their in the times that come after.
References:
The Bible, “All Scripture is breather out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16, English Standard Version)
MyEducationLab Chapter 8. Student-Centered and Constructivist Approaches to Instruction Video [Video file]. (n.d.). Retrieved September 27, 2017, from https://learn.liberty.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_18960492_1&displayName=Presentation%3A MyEducationLab Chapter 8. Student-Centered and Constructivist Approaches to Instruction Video&course_id=_379581_1&navItem=content&href=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Fblti%2FlaunchLink%3Fcourse_id%3D_379581_1%26content_id%3D_18960492_1
