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Video Analysis Tool: Video Scaffolding Assignment
Brittany Pander
Liberty University
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1.After analyzing the teaching video, describe 3 different strategies the teacher
used to facilitate student learning.
Professor Matthew Swope is a High School AP Biology teacher, and he was
the person that was being interviewed and shadowed in the video that we had
to watch for this week’s lesson. Professor Swope had three different strategies
that he used in the video that I believed really helped his students in the lesson
about identifying the different types of fish. He had each of his students in
groups and they had to work together to figure out the different types of fish
that were being broadcasted on the screen. This is an example of active
learning, or as the professor put it, “The kids learn the knowledge from the
teacher and from the books. In active learning they learn from each other”
(Professor Swope). The second teaching strategy that professor Swope used
with his students is that it is okay to be wrong. If you know that your students
are wrong, you as the teacher do not want to tear them down or make them
feel bad because then they will never speak up in your class again. The last
strategy that professor Swope used in his class is that as he goes around the
classroom watching his students work he stays away from the group of
students that are working well. He does not want to disturb their thought
process. Instead he pays more attention to the groups of students that have
puzzled looks on their faces, and he listens to conversations that the students
are having and chimes in when he feels is necessary.
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2.Imagine you are teaching a lesson on a topic of your choice. Describe the
lesson and articulate what types of teaching/learning strategies you would use
to scaffold learning and to facilitate learning for your students in your own
classroom?
This was a hard question for me to answer right of the bat, I had to think about
it for a bit. Mostly because I was trying to figure out what age group I wanted
to have the lesson go towards. I did have to make a lesson plan for my
preschoolers, and the theme was marine animals. A lot of my kids really like
sharks, and they are also learning their colors and numbers. The lesson title
was, “Eat that colored Fish”. For example, one student would be a pink shark
and then I would have different pink things that sharks have in their food
chain. The pink shark would have to find the different pink fish and eat them.
As far as the numbers go I would tell them that they could only eat 3 big fish
and two small fish. As they are eating the pink fish they would have to keep
track of how many big/small fish they have eaten. I would also have different
colored sharks and different colored fish swimming around the room. It was a
fun activity, and it helped the students learn their colors, learning how to
count, and they got to run around. They worked up an appetite for lunch.
3.Now consider the biblical approach to education to inform your thoughts on
this topic. Consider a passage of Scripture and/or a fruit of the spirit to support
your approach to implementing these teaching and learning strategies.
In Ecclesiastes Solomon wrote, “Of making many books there is no end, and
much study wearies the body” (Ecclesiastes 12:12). Any student who has
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pulled an all-nighter, crammed for a test at the last minute, ever had to
memorize an equation, or pored over a textbook can verify the truth of that
verse. Solomon’s point was that there are more important things than simply
amassing knowledge. Fearing God and obeying him, “Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into
judgement, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil”
(Ecclesiastes 12:13-14). Solomon was not saying that education is
unimportant. In fact, Jesus himself learned. One of the only things we know of
his childhood is that he grew in wisdom as he grew in stature. “And Jesus
grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52).
That is, the Son of God voluntarily put himself in a position where he needed
to assimilate knowledge as a man. Education was part of the process the
church has historically promoted education and the involvement of the mind.
“The Reformer John Calvin was a strong advocate for universal education,
believing that every child should be trained in reading, writing, math, and
grammar, as well as religion. Martin Luther taught that education was
essential, both to understand the Word of Scripture and the nature of the world
in which the Word would take root” (Got Questions, 2018). The modern
Sunday school movement began in 1780 when Robert Raikes began educating
poor children who were otherwise overlooked by society. Most universities,
including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge, were founded by
Christians as religious schools (Got Questions, 2018).
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References
Got Questions- “What does the Bible say about Education?” (2018). Retrived from:
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-education.html
Pearson Education (Producer). (n. a.). MyEducationLab chapter 8. student-centered and
constructivist approaches to instruction [Video file]. Retrieved from:
https://learn.liberty.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_18
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