teachology
CCTL Spring Graduates—(front) Cari Jimenez and Sheila Lucas; Rear— Debbie
Blair and Linda Cirulli-Burton.
What are some ways you have
utilized the strategies and concepts
in the CCTL for your own teaching
practice?
I learned a lot about cooperative
learning and how to implement
problem-based learning in my lesson
plan. I learned about the conceptual
framework PIES and how to
effectively create cooperative groups
in the classroom. We learned that
group work does not make an activity
automatically cooperative learning.
One of my main goals is to connect
the target language (Spanish) that we
are learning in the classroom
with "real life experiences using the
language." I was able to use the
concepts I learned about problem-
based learning to create new lessons
in which the students needed to solve
a problem and use specific vocabulary
and phrases in a real life situation
outside the classroom.
I would like to implement more of the
strategies and concepts I learned in
the CCTL, but I know that it is more
effective to incorporate changes
slowly every semester.
More information on the CCTL
Summer Cohort is available on
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