10/9/2010
Reflection on Understanding
1. What do you love to do? Identify something you understand very well. For example, some people love cooking and are great cooks. Other people dance very well, or play a musical instrument. Identify any skill, ability, or interest that you have and that you are good at. You can choose something related to the teaching profession or something that has nothing to do with teaching.
I love to work out.
2. How did you get good at this skill? How did you develop your understanding? Did you have a coach, use trial and error, or did you practice all the time? What were the ways you learned and became good at the skill you have identified? It all started when I was in high school and being very skinny. I was adamant that I had to put some weight on so I started going to the gym. . After a few months I was doing well getter bigger and feeling great about myself. This then encourage me start going to the gym twice a day….I was really motivated. I was so motivated that I decided to take a class on how to become personal trainer.
3. How do you know that you are good at the skill and that you understand it? Identify the evidence do you have that you are good at it. Does your Evidence include any of the following? I knew I had become good at what I did based on all of the below. I had taken on a job at LA Fitness as a personal trainer for three years and had people coming up to me wanting to information and time I would be available to work with them. Other trainers would come to me requesting advice.
teaching someone else
solving a related problem
assessing others' performances
performing in lots of different situations
being able to identify and correct errors
being able to say what makes a performance good
recognizing less than exemplary performances
4. What issues with regard to teaching and curriculum design have been raised by considering "understanding" from your own personal experience? In your reflection, consider ways you might develop curriculum that supports the kind of in-depth understanding you have been reflecting upon in this assignment. Curriculum development has to be fun not only for the student but also for the teacher. With the students I teach the content has to entail them moving and consistently doing a number of things.
