Reflection Blog: Pleasantly Surprised…

If I’m honest, I registered for this course being totally blinded to what it was, I needed anther course to take this summer and although it would not count towards my major, the academic advisor notified me it would count for something! As I read the syllabus I was kind of horrified, I had NEVER …

The One with the Final Blog

This is it! Our last week for this class 🙂 I can’t help to feel a little mixed up feelings writing this blog. This class certainly opened up my mind with endless possibilities when it comes on my own learning. Having this kind of class creates a breath of fresh air with how our class …

Final Blog Post

Well, to start off my final blog in this course I would like to say I was super nervous for this class. When I heard it was only blogs and discussions my first thoughts were that I was pumped there was no tests but the blogs must be super structured and I can’t make mistakes …

Are University Professors Prepared To Teach?

When entering into university did you notice a difference between the way your grade school teachers and university professors taught? Personally, I did. I noticed that every university professor had a different way of teaching and some professors struggled to convey their material effectively during lessons. This experience led me to wonder what educational requirements …

An overall approach to my topic of Mental Health.

Here is my overall blog that will consist of the topic I have chosen as most of you have seen if you have read my blogs. Mental health and Education! For this one, I will be all about mental health. So first of all, I just want to address and remind you of the importance …

Your Actions Speak For My Motivation

Motivation is a complex topic with many branches of research and studies to follow around this topic. You can look at the ways in which you increase, foster, instill, and even decrease motivation. With each of these topics there are numerous factors that play into the different levels of motivation that you can dive into. …

Connecting the dots with boredom.

We have learned throughout our experiences in school that thinking a certain way (school’s way) is the “correct” way, while thinking differently is “wrong”.  How can this be? Well, all education consists of transmitting to students two different things: (1) the subject matter or discipline content of the course (“what to think”), and (2) the correct way …

The Theorist’s Classroom

A behaviourist, a cognitivist, a constructivist and a humanist walk into a classroom… what kind of changes would they make? The behaviourist pipes up, “It is simply unacceptable the ways these students are being treated. Punishment will not help these children change their behaviours (Skinner, 1971) to become the citizens we need; positive reinforcement has …

Less is More: Where Seating, Burnout, and Class Size Intersect

We’ve explored the foundation of two experiences in education—how where you sit in a classroom can have an impact on your grades, and how teacher burnout is created and how it is a problem. I covered each of these as topics, but they were both building blocks, or stepping stones, into a greater issue in …

How does communication impact your learning?

Hang in there folks, we’re almost done! Did you always wander how convenient communication is in our daily lives? Communication is such a necessity for our survival in our day to day activities – you wake up in the morning, greet who’s in your house, text or call your friends, you go to school and …