Week Five: Personality/Wiki Questions

I think that Wikis are very useful and can help to make teachers work more efficient. I think that I will definitely use a Wiki in my classroom. I would like to use one to post handouts, that way I don't have to print them off for students, but instead they can just download them. Also, it would be good to post notes so that students could print off what we're covering that day and be a little more prepared.

I definitely believe that learning by conversing is more effective than traditional learning. Students zone out when they are told something, but when they get to interact, they learn and get involved in the topic. We can see that this is true by just observing the differences in the atmospheres of two classrooms where one teacher is traditional in instruction and the other leans toward conversation in the classroom.

Students definitely learn differently, partly due to their personalities. I think that to know if a student is an introvert or an extrovert would help tremendously in whether you can call on a student and they can handle it or not. Also, it can help you to understand why students write about the topics they do and how to handle behavioral situations with certain students.

Kayla Morgan
ETEC 424