Objectives+and+Assessments


 * __ Teaching activities __**

==== Teaching activities will be pre-reading strategies such as circumlocution with new vocabulary words, using pictures to predict what may happen in the story. When creating the lessons, it is important to keep in mind the behavior and cognitive theories that should go into planning a curriculum, unit or lesson. Depending on the lesson or the activities mentioned above, a game might have to be involved in order to feel rewarded. Behaviorism many of the times works with extrinsic motivation. Social learning theorists like Bandura's views are often referred to as modeling or observational learning (Parway, Hass, & Anctil, 2010). Using pictures to represent visuals of new vocabulary words would be an example of this type of activity. Using a more cognitive learning approach would be for the students to predict what might happen in the story using cooperative learning skills; project based learning activities and/or discussions. Here are higher level activities that are more dominant on Bloom's Taxonomy and by the students working on the activity; it will be stored into the student’s long term memory much quicker than a behaviorist approach.====

**__ Assessment/evaluation __**
==== When evaluating the models of pedagogy in our classrooms, we have to understand that one size does not fit all students. By keeping this in mind, we can give a variety of assessments around the different multiple intelligences and/or have the students complete alternative assessments. By using alternative assessments, we can have our classroom as Wink mentions a //"generative"// classroom. The students are working cooperatively and through indirect instruction from the teacher. The students could turn in an evaluative piece that fits that nature of the assignment as long as they include all of the necessary concept (Wink, 2010). A few examples that the students can complete will be: listening activities, reading comprehension activities, storyboards, critiques, creating a video based on the variety of readings. Wink mentions that only 20 percent of teachers believe they are prepared to integrate technology into their classroom (Wink, 2010). With society changing and technology being implemented into our curriculum, the students should have the opportunity to demonstrate their 21st century skills. As long as they are using their 21st century skills correctly, the students can be more creative then they could have been in the past.====

Research and analyze Latin Americans that live in our community and how they have contributed to the Latin American culture.
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