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JIGSAW METHOD

       

      Cooperative classroom- or jigsaw method is a research based on cooperative learning technique. It helps students to learn together and meet new people. This method benefit to socialize and learn together. For example; students can be a friend or know new people who they do not talk or meet before. I think that students can take responsibility with the help of this method. For instance; students sometimes do not want to do homework by their own, using this method can encourage the students to do homework. Also students learn that people can understand and interpret differently on the same topic. With the help of this method students learn to share their knowledge properly. This method can make the lesson enjoyable because students think, speak, share and more importantly learn new knowledge by their own. Also, this method decrease the teachers responsibility about teaching the lecture in detail because teacher gives responsibility to the students. Teacher is guide and facilitator in this method. Teacher can help or answer the question of the students if students need. I think that beside all of these advantages this method also has disadvantage. I think that the use of this method in crowd class is not appropriate. Teachers can have difficulty to contol the class. At the same time there would be so much sound which is not appropriate for learning and teaching a lesson. Briefly I think that this method has both advantage and disadvantage. If conditions are suitable to make a lesson with this method then it would be both entertainment and informative.

PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUCTION

Principles of Instruction
1. Appropriateness of students’ level
2. Known to unkown
3. Near to far
4. Clarity
5. Concrete to abstract
6. Feasibility
7. In life
8. Doing
9. Whole

GRADE: Preschool
TOPIC: The Human Body
While teaching something teachers can use some of these principles together. As an example I am going to teach the human body part.


Known to Unknown, and Near to Far

 

Firstly I will teach the vocabularies of human body which students can see and touch, such as nose, eyes, mouth, teeth, hair and etc. Secondly I will teach the internal organs, such as brain, throat, heart, lung, stomach and etc. All students in preschool know their external organs also they can touch and show their external organs  as a teacher first I start to teach external organ. So that I use both known to unknown and near to far principles.
     


Clarity:



I will organize and lecture  the lesson with visual aids, such as pictures, videos, songs of the human body  for students to understand the topic better. For example; on Youtube the videos, Body Parts Song for Kids - This is ME! by ELF Learning - ELF Kids Videos and Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes - Exercise Song For Kids are both informative and entertaining.


 Clich here to listen song


Concrete to Abstract:



Abstract and concrete are classifications that denote whether the object that a term describes has physical referents.  Abstract objects have no physical referents, whereas concrete objects do. When I mention body part, I can show the concrete object like nose- smell, eyes-see and show the concrete and abstract objects together like brain-mind, heart-love,hurt,feel and etc. I will  watch the movie Inside Out with my students to understand better the abstract and concrete.

 Clich here to watch trailer




Feasibility and In life

The topic of human body is already in the life of children’s.  To use these principles I will give homework to observe their environment.For instance; students can number of the color of the eyes around their family or they can take picture of different people’s body part and take them to the class in this way students will more involved in the topic.





Doing



I can make handwork with students about body part. For example; they can draw and paint the different part of the body different colors. I can prepare a exercise, for instance; I can stand all students and give directions to  them like;

Touch your head
Roll your head around circle
Move your shoulders up and down
Raise your hand
Stretch your arms out and swing them in a circle
Bend your kness, and then stretch out your legs


Whole

At the end of the topic I can prepare a mini exam to evaluate my students’ knowledge. Also I want them to prepare a sketch or hand work about human body part.       

DO SCHOOLS KILL CREATIVITY

Analyze for “Do School Kills Creativity?” by Ken Robinson

            According to Ken Robinson, creativity as important as education,and we should treat it with the same status.Education system in the whole world make students ready for the future.On the other hand scientists have no information about the life of the world.While school prepare the students for future, creativity has been simply ignored by the school. To meet the need of industrializm, people forget that every chidren has own speciality.Ken Robinson beautifully described the wrong direction of education and creativity in his speech “Do School Kills Creativity”.There are three main analysis step that receiver examine with full attention. These steps are content and tone,structure of the talk,and delivery.

            Content and tone of the speech is generally about the creativity capacity of children and education system.When students are educated in schools,education system  focus on students head and slightly to the left side.According to the researches the rate of using the right side of the brain is decreasing in every period of human life.According to Ken Robinson children are not frightened of being wrong.Think about a child in five. He/she has high self confidence.He/she  says whatever he/she thinks, does not afraid of making mistakes because  he/she does not know what happens when he/she make a mistake.When parents educate their kids at the same time they teach their kids that making mistakes is bad thing.When kids start school the teacherss punish the student in their every mistake.So that children gradually start to fright of making mistake,and they lose their creativity.This fault is not offense of parents or teachers, it is because  nonconvertible education system.In short, the content of  the speech is frightened of being wrong when grow up influence creativity.

            It is important to be ready before starting a speech.It is obvious that Ken Robinson get ready his speech.His speech has an order.He first starts to mention general themes of the conference.He specify the themes, his first mention  are relevant to what he wants to talk about. He does not go of target,he goes with an order.He gradually make ready the audiences to the topic with examples.The words he chooses for his speech are not excessive academic words. It appeals every group of age.The environment of the conference of Ken Robinson is not so serious. He takes the attention of audiences with  his examples and jokes. In brief,Ken Robinson get ready his speech very well and not confusedthe audiences with his word choice