About me

My name is Joel Graham. I am a junior at the university of South Alabama studying secondary education with focus on the social sciences.Upon graduating i plan to teach and coach basketball and soccer at a high school.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Learning Techniques

There are many different ways people learn things. Some people are visual learners. these people learn the best by watching the task being performed. there are also people who learn by doing the task. they learn the best by just being thrown into the task and learning as they go.lastly there are some students that learn the best by listening to direction verbally and then attempting to perform the task. this type of student would be the best at learning things like different languages via audio tape or CD. I will be implementing all of the above styles in my class in order to facilitate to every type of learner.

Google Tools

google tools can be a very useful asset to both a teacher and a student. there are many diffrent ways that google can help with education. the first and most basic is that google helps us comunicate threw email and also the tool google talk can be used to im back and forth. also google can help teacher put together a leason by utilizing the google docs program and creating a slideshow presentation.

Pursuit of Knowledge

The pursuit of knowledge is and should be the soul goal of educators and students alike. If we do not keep learning everyday no one gets better and in all its a waste of a day. so in class we will keep this in mind and try to learn a new valuable piece of information or a new skill everyday.

Itunes

Itunes is a extremly useful source that can be a valuble educational tool. For a audio based learner itunes is a great idea to just have material on your ipod or any mp3 player so that they can listen to the leason over and over agian. this alone goes that extra mile in the journey of learning and puts the student over the top an will perform well when the time comes.

Blogs

Blogging is an esental information sharing tool. It can be very useful in keeping a classroom orginized and every intetity from teachers to students and even geting the teachers parents envolved with classroom events.