Day 1

Well, I will certainly give this a shot.  I am not new to blogging but I am NEW to doing this as course work for a class and find it a bit funny how I have something specific to write about on this blog.  So yes, I get to "ramble" about Introduction to Education Psychology, and today was my first day of classes. I figured I should at least start this and get into a good habit of hopefully writing in this after every class.  Lets aim for that anyways.  The idea is that everything is still fresh in my head, though I did start this just after 11pm...

Today in class our instructor, gave us our course outline and had went over some key points in it: learning objectives, Reading and Information Schedule, and the like.  I was intrigued that 10% of our exams will be coming from the text book, and the remaining 90% will be what we have discussed and learned in class.  I quite like that idea, just because I learn better in class discussions than reading from a text book all the time.  If I am engaged in the topic, it helps me retain what has been discussed, and will help me further down the road when it comes to exams and studying for them.  Which brings me to the next topic which I found interesting today:

We gently glazed over types of teaching, being a more rewarding/disciplined route, or something that is not so structured. I think it's so hard to chose a type of teaching, because everyone, teachers and students a like, are different from each other and learn at different speeds and ways.  Yes, it's very important as a teacher to broad our horizons so we can help each student that comes our ways, and hope to chose the "right way" of teaching.  What I find hard to figure out, "what is the right way?" As of yet, I don't have an answer for the question.  I know our instructor said that it depends of the students and teachers, on each personality and how they learn and teach.  I get it, but I sure hope I get a better understanding down the road.

I think this can be a very complicated course, but today was only Day 1, so I hope it won't be as foggy when we go along the term.