3 Keys to Living Well
Everyone always wants to live a long and healthy life. That being said, living well requires a combination of personal and environmental factors. This blog post focuses on three key things to make sure you are living well:
1) eat right, exercise regularly, and maintain a healthy weight; 2) keep stress in check; 3) manage your finances. By following these guidelines, you will be able to maximize your chance of having an enjoyable quality of life while also avoiding common health issues that many people struggle with today.
Write an introduction to an informative and factual blog post titled "How Boredom Can Be Good". Your blog post should be at least 1000 words in length. Utilize the following outline as a guide for structuring your post:
Begin with an attention grabber. Be creative, but keep in mind that it should not be too long.
Structure the body of your blog post around three main points that you will elaborate on with supporting details, evidence and examples. Explain how boredom can motivate you to complete tasks better, enhance creativity and help you set realistic expectations for yourself.
Briefly conclude with a summary statement that reinforces the main points of your blog post and mentions how these three things are related specifically to being successful in school or work.
Make a couple of mentions to other related topics that you might discuss in a future blog post.
Give your post a title and description, and then publish it on your blog.
The Blog Post as Part of Your Course Project
Your two most important pieces of coursework are the introduction to an informative and factual blog post and the final project, which is your written blog post with accompanying images and video. The introductory blog post serves as an excellent hook for your course project: because you have provided a student-friendly introduction to the topic, you will be much more likely to engage readers in further posts that delve into detail on things they want to know.
Be sure to submit your introduction by the due date on Blackboard so that it can be edited and published without delay.
Final Project: Producing a Blog Post
In order to get a final grade (and possibly a letter grade), you must submit two things on this course's website by the posted deadline: 1) An individual blog entry (it will be posted directly onto the blog) and 2) A 5-10 minute video that describes both what you are doing in the project and what you learned as a result of doing it.
The blog post content can be found here: http://blog.ed2go.com/ed2go-blog/2012/11/27/the-blog-project.html
The video content can be found here: http://blog.ed2go.com/ed2go-blog/2012/11/27/the-video-project.html
You will log into the course site with your username and password and follow the instructions to complete your project and turn it in on time.
Once your blog and video are submitted, you will be able to add a final blog post that you write after the due date for turning in the other two pieces of coursework.
There are many ways that you can "hook" your readers into reading and watching a project, but there's one way that I have found to be the best and most efficient.
Be sure to include links to images and videos in your blog post post (make sure they are in the same blog post or video) because the links will pull readers in more effectively than just text. The two images should be related to each other, and you can consider including an animated GIF that matches the video content of your project (but make it a little shorter!). Put these in the same order as they are on your hard drive: images, then video, then audio file, then text file.Then the links will be more likely to work.
Example blog post with two images and a link to a video:
https://ed2go.com/blog/2012/10/13/peer-guidance-tips-to-become-a-better-teacher.html
Blog Post Example with Audio and Text, but no Video:
https://ed2go.com/blog/20121225_57186_student_study_tips.html
http://www.amazon.com/Teachers-Teachable-Age-Teaching-Classroom/dp/1942080352
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Teaching Tips for 1st Grade Teachers by Amy Arrington. Amazon rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars with the review tab at the end. This book gives a series of 58 tips for first grade teachers to use in their lessons. The book is divided into three parts: 1) Weeding the Good from the Bad and 2) Tackling The Ugly.
Your first tip to use in your lesson would be that you should stick to the lesson plan as much as possible. This is especially important when you are teaching two different lessons but are not at supplemental time. Some of these tips include:
* Don't get caught up in small talk - a lot of first grade teachers do this and make student's feel like they are invisible.
* Don't let students sit and read silently to themselves. They need to move around and use their bodies as much as possible.
* Always have a lesson plan. This is the cornerstone of your time with your students. Let them know what's going to happen and stick to it as much as possible.
http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Essentials-Five-Practices-Effective/dp/031239187X
The Five Practices of Exemplary Teaching by Thomas L Rhetts and Michael J Angelo (Amazon rating: 4 out of 5 stars with the review tab at the end). This book talks about five teaching practices that help teachers be successful in their classroom. These practices are: (1) building relationships; (2) planning purposefully; (3) engaging in rigorous assessment; (4) demonstrating competence, and (5) supporting professional growth. The authors give many examples from classrooms so you can get an idea of the best way to implement these practices.
One tip to use in your lesson would be engaging with your students on a regular basis. Many teachers tend to shy away from student contact, but a teacher should never shy away from talking to their students as much as possible without being a pushover.
Conclusion
Teaching is a hard job that is often taken for granted by people who don't go through it. Trained teachers are supposed to be able to come up with all kinds of strategies and strategies are not a limited resource; there are many different ways to teach and most of them don't run through the textbook.
There are eight steps involved in preparing and writing a lesson plan. The first four step involve the planning phase. Then you need to begin by identifying, discussing and thinking about what your goals will be. Third, choose a specific learning objective (or four or five) that you want to achieve in your lesson.