16-09-2021
Jerry Reed Blogspot
11 September 2004 live Parsons, KS - Jerry Reed (Jerry Reed vcl/gt, Ms. Priss (aka Priscilla Mitchell Reed) rh gt/keyboards, Bobby Lovett gut string gt/el gt/5 string banjo, Mark Thornton: gt, Mike Bush bass, John Riffe drums + The Rufus Green Singers).Produced by Jerry Reed and Chet Hinesley probably studio overdubs: Jerry Roe. Jerry reed memorial at find-a-grave here is some sad news that we missed thanks to hurricane gustav. Flashback to 1972 and cbs: 'the jerry reed when you're hot you're hot hour' with guest star jerry clower.
I'll digress just a moment here in order to toss out a few non-TV bulges of note. Tom Jones, howling singer of note who lived in tight pants throughout the '60s and beyond. This picture is hilarious for so many reasons. First there's the gravity-defying hair (which Robert Reed of The Brady Bunch seemed to want to copy. (Lacing is a Shoedrone/Heavygaze band from Chattanooga, TN, formed by Jerry Reed, Joseph Davenport, Joseph J Micolo III and Robert Parker). Here posted by Crazy Monkey at 19:47 0 Comments.
This question makes me think of one of my favorite words in the English language, culture. It is important to know the specific culture of your classes; how they act, their typical energy and participation level, how they work in groups, and many other factors. As educators we have to be flexible in almost everything we do, just because a lesson plan works wonderfully one year, doesn't mean it will continue to impress students in the future. One of the things you often hear from new teachers is that their time outside of the classroom consists of a lot of lesson planing, because they have yet to collect a variety of methods to teach each concept they need to. It is definitely difficult to teach in a manner that can be meaningful to the entirety of the increasingly diverse classrooms we find ourselves in. How exactly can we differentiate our teaching so that every student can learn? What exactly is the most important factor in effective teaching?How exactly can we differentiate our teaching so that every student can learn?
According to dictionary.reference.com
(2015), to differentiate is to 'to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish'. That is exactly what differentiation of instruction is, to change how you teach, or the lessons you plan, so that a concept is taught in different ways. This is important simply because not everyone learns in the same way, some people need visuals to learn more effectively, others, like myself, are much more of a lecture learner, and even more are hands-on learners. Learning style varies from student to student, but this doesn't mean a student can only learn through their preferred style. A hands-on student can learn just as much from a lecture as a student who prefers lecture, it just means that the concept may not come quite as easily or naturally to them. Mr. Black, my placement teacher, was a lecturer, his lessons consisted primarily of student guided lecture, letting students determine what gets focused on, by simply asking a question here and there during the lecture, this also increased student attention with the constant threat that they could be called on. Although lecture is his preferred way to teach, he always took one or two days out of the week to do some activity to mix up the teaching methods, and attempt to break up the monotony of an everyday lecture. All it takes is a day a week, change your style and help your students grow, you cannot be sure how many students will suddenly just understand an idea with an activity until you try, and if it doesn't work, don't scrap the lesson, wait until the right group of students come along.What exactly is the most important factor in effective teaching?
The NCSS (2015) gives five factors for what they call 'powerful teaching' these factors are for the lessons to be: meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active. Meaningful referring to lessons that stay with a student in a way they deem valuable. Integrative means not only to integrate all the disciplines of social studies into our lessons, but also to incorporate things like writing skills, into our lessons. Value-based stems from the idea that our purpose is to educate well-informed, responsible citizens. Challenging is self explanatory, just remember that everyone has limits. Active lessons get students thinking about more than just the content, but why the content is important. All of these are equally important in education, but what exactly does this mean for teachers? I believe that this really only gives us a small part of what we need to be effective teachers. I think it is important that we find the best way we can teach that works for us, Mr. Black was more comfortable lecturing, and when his class was polled on his performance, the vast majority praised him. A teacher down the hall from Mr. Black does many activities with her students, and there is no one to say that one of these teachers is more effective than the other. We have to make the classroom OUR classroom, we are going to be more effective teachers if we remember to differentiate our instruction, but primarily stick to what we are good at. Some teachers do not have the necessary emotion or humor to keep student's attention during a lecture, Mr. Black does, the teacher down the hall probably does not. It is up to us to combine the five NCSS factors into something that we can teach almost naturally.References
Dictionary.com. (2015). Differentiating
National Counsel for the Social Studies. (2015). A Vision of Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies: Building Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy