practice makes perfect and you will win the game

I know this reflection is a little late, but after listening to the brain speaker and reading the chapter I realized, Learning by doing is the way most folks ultimately learn anything and everything. If we don’t know something we ask someone to show us a coach, teacher, co-worker, friend, parent etc. If we still do not understand it we watch someone else demonstrate it then we practice. “Practice makes perfect” or in other terms by doing something over and over you will learn it. This is where assessments come into play through education. After all the practicing or for examples worksheets, in class discussion, group presentations, center time there will be a time for the students to prove that with all that “practice” they learned it. By providing ways to prove the students accomplishments we use assessments. Assessments can be in any form, grade, quiz, test, role playing, and answering questions out load with the whole class. Dr. Krommer’s lecture the other day explained this theory in a little more detail on what we keep in our memory and what we retrieve all reflects on what we learned and how we learned it. I love hands on things, maybe that’s why I want to teach science. In science I believe I can use this quote in my everyday teaching science experiments are a great example of learning by doing. You don’t just learn to hypothesis, but you build your poster board, you make your guesses, you present to the class and after it is all over with the knowledge you have gain is a great assessment to let the teacher know you have understood what you learned. Keeping up going ideas and engaging students in interesting activities is one of my main goals for my teaching career. It”s stated in the book that standards set our goals for instruction but they way we teach and the way students grow with knowledge is based on our instructional strategies (back to chapter 6) and assessments. Using assessments is a way to gain knowledge about your students LOP and your craft of teaching. Use it usefully and you will see great results in your students and yourself.