Thursday, July 11, 2013

What is pedagogy?

Hi my name is Shanaè and I'm a student taking an English class called English 220. I recently watched two videos on what pedagogy is. Pedagogy is from Greek roots, the art of teaching. The process of learning and the context presented leaning strategies. Pedagogy describes learning as a step to step procedure that I do to believe is true. Everyone has their own pedagogy way of teaching, everyone is learning different things in different ways. Teachers everyday teach different techniques to get children to get a better understanding of what's being taught. Taking the pedagogy path and using different context and incorporating different ideas to teach to different students is the step to step procedure and learning strategy that pedagogy is referring to. It's basically a plan and that's why teachers write lesson plans before going in front of the classroom and teaching. They want to make sure their using the pedagogy technique and making sure their lesson plan involves every single student.

I watched a video were Sirkin Robinson discuss education and learning. Sirkin Robinson believes creativity is important as literacy and kids aren't scared to be wrong. That's how people learn but once a child turns into an adult they are scared to make mistakes. He also feels that's what's wrong with the school system. A child grows up being creative but eventually grows out of it because of school system not allowing them to be themselves. Every school had the basic when it comes onto learning math being at the top of the list and humanities being at the bottom to produce education progressive but schools won't value art, music or dance. Sirkin Robinson thinks the three keys to intelligence is diversity (thinking different), dynamic (interactive) and distinct (discovering your talent). Some children move a lot they can't keep still so in that case their parents put them in dancing schools. School have less programs in school that offer children to be themselves. Instead schools just focus on the subjects and learning structure.

These are the the links to the videos that I mentioned: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkoRR670fj8
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

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