During chapter 9 of the text, great details in higher level learning and cognitive skills are approached. One of my huge takeaways from this chapter is that what can a teacher do to help the students learn something. Whether it's a subject he or she is comfortable with or not. This is hard for a teacher to sometimes get a certain student to work outside their comfort zone and learn something he or she prefers not to learn. This relates to the strategy called KWL in the Woolfolk text. This is just one strategy, there all plenty out there for students to use for their own success, its just differs how they use these strategies.This to me goes hand in which the text also talks about how important planning, motivating, and then evaluating to have success within the classroom, solve a problem, and overall accomplish goals. I believe that this relates to all categories of education. For me, it's physical education.
In physical education, it's difficult for students who aren't interested in physical activity but a student must find some sort of passion to improve their abilities in physical activity. This is when practice comes into factor. In physical education, we do units in which we focus on a activity or sport for a period of time. This gives students time to learn and improve in that activity. Which in other words is a strategy a student can use.
Chapter 10 covers different fields of education. While reading I came across the importance of constructivism. As teachers we must know and understand that social implications are possible within any of your students. That being said, constructivism or social implications clearly has an impact on the learning process.
Following chapter 10 and the effect of social implications on the learning process comes chapter 11 in which goes in depth on social views of learning and motivation. As a ex-athlete and now a coach, something that has impacted me in education has been a role model. I look up to athletes and intelligent ones. I wanted to succeed just as bad as them. But with their abilities on the field came with great intelligence within a classroom. This itself, gives students a great view of how learning and motivation can lead to success.
Being a physical education teacher is really exciting, I am excited for your future. Yes, there will be times where your students will not want to participate or they may fear that they are not as good as the other students, but practice does make perfect. The way you described these chapters make it sound like you understand how to handle those situations.
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