Talk:Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 2/Chapter FAQ



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Author Reflection
The hardest part about writing my wikibook article, besides the crazy wiki-code, was finding direct answers to my questions. I quickly realized the questions I decided to ask for my FAQ's did not have one specific answer. This made putting multiple ideas easier, but made it harder to answer the questions effectively. There was not as much information about assessing students progress as I thought there would be, or at least I had trouble finding meaningful ways of assessment. I guess I had just as much trouble finding meaningful answers as I did trying to spell assess correctly! I was quite excited about finding the list of ways to use constructivism in the classroom. They were interesting to me and made the idea of a constructivist classroom make more sense to me. I hope that when I am actually teaching I will use these ideas so that I can go above and beyond just being a teacher. The teachers I remember the most are the ones that went above and beyond their call of being a teacher, and made students want to learn. This is a goal of mine as an art teacher! Hcogg001 (talk) 19:39, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Reader Responses
What an interesting article to read! I thought you did a great job of capturing the main points and ideas of Chapter 2 and compliling all ideas together to make your Chapter FAQ's. Great use of color, pictures and borders! The article itself was very interesting to read and captured my attention from beginning to end. Everything flowed nicely and I felt that when I reached the end of the article I had a good foundation of Chapter 2. I enjoyed reading about educatioal philosophies, and I agree that teachers seem to work better when using a variety of educational philosophies. This way, students are able to grow and learn from different ideas and are not stuck with just one idea and way of learning.It was also interesting to read that teaching philosophies can be used to stimulate reflection on teaching and help the teacher to grow and develop professionally. I look forward to learning more and "tweaking" my own educational and teaching philosophies. I would have liked if you had given a short description of Perennialism, Idealism, Realism, Experimentalism and Existentialism. Reading about the four main assessment methods helped reinforce the topic in my head after reviewing the class lecture. Afett001 (talk) 19:50, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I think you did a great job incorporating all of the main topics of the chapter. I especially liked how you incorporated website links on the sidebars...I went to a few of the sites and found some interesting information. I liked how you broke down the information on educational philosophies so that it was really easy to read. I think you had just the right amount of information to keep the reader interested and hungry for more so that they would read the remainder of articles. Excellent job...great use of wiki code...great pictures and color scheme!! Kudos!Scarlett1 (talk) 23:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

The author really managed to cover all the bases effectively in one article. I particularly like how she informed us of the use of analogies in learning. Most everything I retained from my educational career is attached to an analogy, whether I attached it myself or the teacher presented it in that form it was very helpful. I agree that a well rounded or "highly effective" teacher gathers from all the teaching philosophies vs. focusing on one. Not only do the students benefit from this variety, but the teacher does as well. It helps the teacher to assess what's working for his/her particular classroom and what is not. The article was executed well, with good organization and aesthetic appeal. Great Job! Rpaige (talk) 16:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)