Please respond to both questions below:
Unless the schedule has been changed, today's class should be about leading good discussions. Please comment here on what you did in class, and note what you think is the most important thing you learned from the class.
My original schedule had you discussing lesson plans for a good lecture, and asked you to bring a tentative plan to class for critique/comparison. Apparently, the schedule is slightly revised, so I am not sure what you are covering today. Please comment here on what you did in class, and note what you think is the most important thing you learned from the class.
I assume today's class session deals with technology. If so, let me know here what you learned. Are there any technology-related innovations at Central that seem to you likely to lead to improved social studies education? Any technology-related items you really hope you have when you are teaching? Did you learn about any potential problems related to educational technology?
I believe today's class (October 23) will be devoted to a presentation of your history/social studies games. Please post your game here. By the way, there was something wrong with the link to my Gluing Students to Their Seats blog. I've fixed the link, and I'd appreciate it if you would take a look at the games and activities there. I think you will find them very useful when you're actually teaching and need an occasional change of pace.
One of the most important keys to good teaching is the ability to create a classroom environment conducive to learning. Consider the learning-environment factors discussed in class today and in the assigned chapter of TSSFFAP. Which of these positive-environment-building factors do you think you are/will be particularly good at? Which do you think will be more of a struggle for you? 
Few things are more important to classroom success than good planning. What did you learn from today's class session and/or the reading assignment that you think is particularly important to remember when attempting to plan effective classes/courses?
How did you like the Guy Doud video? What did you think particularly useful in his advice/comments on teaching? What about his teaching makes him an appropriate "teacher of the year?"
Based on today's class session and the clips from Chris Pirlet's class at Aberdeen Central, does it seem to you that theater games would work well as a social science teaching technique? What do you see as positives and negatives about theater games? Do you think you will use theater games yourself when you teach? Why, or why not?
For more than 10 years, SEED 415 students have been putting together homepages highlighting their work for this class. This semester, students are putting together blogs instead of homepages. What do you think of this change? Is a blog more useful to you than a homepage, or do you think it would have been more valuable creating a homepage? Has it been more useful to you as a student when your professors have put supplemental information on homepages or when they have used blogs?
Welcome to the official 2007 class blog of SEED 415, Social Science Special Methods. This blog is the place to record your reflections on the class and to exchange ideas on making social studies classes what they should be--the most interesting, most exciting, most important classes your students will take.
