Week 6

This week was very different from the past weeks as we had work to complete from home in our own time. During the slides you were asked some questions to get you thinking and I have chosen to include 2 of my answers in my blog for this week as they related to me the most. 

1- Think of an experience in your schooling where you were a “receptacle” for knowledge. I am fresh out of high school, so last year when I completed year 12 particularly the subject Health and Human Development we were required to remember and recall roughly around 30 definitions word by word. My teacher presented the knowledge to us in cue cards that we were to use to test ourselves. My own engagement with this style of teaching wasn't the greatest as I don't have the best memory and I would prefer to learn things in a more hands on way. 

Can teaching be organised around schedules, recipes? I agree that to a certain point as a teacher you need to have an organised schedule that you plan to follow but in saying that you need to be aware that it may not always go to plan. You will need to have a plan that is well thought out as preparation will assist you in getting the best out of the classes you teach, but you will also need to be able to think on your feet because not everything will got the way you want it to e.g. timing. 

Week 5

This week instead of attending our lectures and tutorials we were given time to attend the Bunjilaka exhibit at the Melbourne Museum. A few of my fellow classmates and I arranged to meet up to complete the task together. On the Monday morning I caught the train into the city and got off at Parliament Station and from there it was about a 10 minute walk to the museum. The weather was perfect so off I went on my walk. Usually when I am walking from place to place I never take in my surroundings, I just think about how much further I have to walk until I can get a break. But since beginning this course I have learnt to appreciate and think about my surroundings, on my walk to the museum I took a short cut through a park that was full of trees and beautiful grass land, although in the center of it the museum was placed and as I was strolling along I began to think back and wonder what this land was like before human citizenship, because even though it was gorgeous it had been tampered with by humans. This thinking for me was really unexpected but very welcomed as it means that I am learning and beginning understand the concepts in relation to Play, development and learning as well as History and Philosophy of Early Childhood Education.