6.1 Lower Level Question:
(knowledge, application)
Explain the difference between a recognition task and a
recall task. Give two examples of how you might provide retreival cues to
students in your classroom.
(synthesize)
Imagine you are teaching a new social studies unit to your
students. In this unit, there is a very long list of vocabulary words that you
want to introduce to your students. In the past, you have spent a lot of time before
starting the unit focusing on vocabulary. You want them to be well-equipped to
understand the content but you’ve noticed that it has been hard to keep their
attention and they seem bored with the task of defining long vocabulary lists. Devise
a plan for how you might teach this unit’s vocabulary while keeping their
attention.
A recognition task requires students to recognize the answer that you want while a recall task requires them to recall the answer witout actually seeing it. You could provide retrieval cues by reminding or asking students how or when they learned a task. You could also provide a hint or a clue that leads to the answer.
ReplyDeleteStudying with flashcards and writing defintions is boring - and it encourages rote learning. Games, as opposed to flashcards, are much more interesting. Because interest encourages attention, I will design games for the students to play in class and at home. I will make flashcards for them on an electronic app. like Edmodo or Quizlet so that they can use their phones, computers, and Ipads to answer quiz questions play matching games. I give students the definitions so that they can spend their time acting out skits that represent the words, drawing pictures that represent the words,and using the words in sentences.
I really liked the second question. I got to apply the knowledge that I learned throughout the chapter.