Theories, Theories and more Theories!

This past week we briefly reviewed the theories. I was glad we did. Although though I've taken multiple education psychology classes, I always forget which theorists go with which theories, and the specifics about each one.

After working on the "pre" portion of our project, I now feel like an expert on Cognitivism though! It's very interesting to see how the theory connects to what I do in my classroom. I didn't realize how many of my teaching habits include Gagne's 9 instructional strategies. I also found it interesting that all of the examples of how to use Cognitivism in the classroom that I found were math related.

In class this past week, we also had a tutorial of Google Sites. We will be using these for our portfolios this semester. I am excited to make this change, I wasn't thrilled with the portfolio section of Blackboard from the last class.

For this upcoming week, I am excited to finish planning our lesson for our presentation next week. We already have a pretty good idea of what we're doing, we just need to put it all together!