Module 5

Chapter 12 was one of my favorite chapters because it was about motivation and setting goals. It is important as a teacher to understand the different kinds of motivation. The chapter gave an overview of intrinsic motivation, which is the willingness to learn or do something because you simply love to do it or for enjoyment. Also, extrinsic motivation which is based primarily on external factors such as tangible rewards like gifts, money and etc. The chapter also covers goals setting and how to properly set a goal Goals should be attainable, moderately difficult and specific. An overview of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs was also included in this chapter.

Chapter 14 focused on the aspect of teaching every student. Simply put, making sure everyone is getting an equal education and that entails knowledge of each individual student and his or her strengths and weaknesses. This chapter gives insight on how to develop the learning objectives using Blooms taxonomy. The chapter discusses appropriate ways to integrate objectives. It talks about planning by design, creating a step by step plan on how you will teach a lesson. Also making proper adaptations for students with learning disabilities using steps in the INCLUDE strategy. Lastly, the chapter discussed the two kids of expectation effects which will be very helpful in our teaching careers. One is the self-fulfilling prophecy effects, which student behaviors match the initially inaccurate expectation and the other is sustaining expectations effect, teachers unchanging expectations sustain the student's achievement at the expected level.

Chapter 15 gives an overview of classroom assessment, grading, and standardized testing. This chapter and chapter 14 aided in the creation of our final project in the class. the chapter discusses how to evaluate and measure the results of the assessments and how you can use them to improve on teaching and student learning. Describes how to properly use objectives to write the test. The chapter also explains how to interpret the scores on standardized tests.