We have to understand our learners and know that there are lots of different ways your learnerssz are going to learnt he same thing. We need to differentiate our instruction.

-I am still battling with the imbalance of experiential hands-on learning and academic "book knowledge". It is playing our in the education of our teachers as well. so we can change the mode of training teachers and have it propogate into the classroom.
I am as much trying to observe this classroom to develop the language to promote the balance.

Kinesthetic- do, or hands-on learning activities
auditory-verbal- say
visual- see

Motivation is a big part of ed psy, how do we get the child to want to learn, interest them enough to self-sustain.

Love and Logic;; get the kids to fall in love with you because they will do what you want them to do.

stretegies for motivation:
-motivational: curiosity
-cooperative learning: group, brainstorming,
-differentiated instruction: adapting

Pedagogy: the study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process.

a lot of the innovative educational processes for special ed students are from outside of the US. POD, PACS?

FAPE: free and appropriate education.

everytime we start a class, we have to get to know the teacher and what we are doing. needs to be a core experience where all students and teacher candidates and teachers get to mingle and get to know each other.

rythm and moves is a company that contracts PE and music teachers with school districts. http://www.rhythmandmoves.com/

Quasi-experimental: two classrooms that are pre-set up by an administrator, it is not like a gen ed classroom.

I want to strive to be the person I want to present to the learners, all the time. I can reserve some things that are personal, but core beliefs and appropriate social interactions and behavior should be rock solid and repetative.

Firewalls were unheard of in the late 90's, we didn't know how it would be used in school. how are firewalls being viewed today? Why are firewalls tolerated when it is not a good model for society.

The tendancy for the national teachers to wax self-referential in the guise of general ed tips or examples, is coupled with a complete lack of organization and commitment to a lesson plan and trajectory in the classroom.

A theory is a testable prediction. Only theories of Education and no Laws.-Chech

Scheme- is a a way of experiencing the wolrd, like when a baby bites objects, or bang on them to found out what happens. they treat objects the same and subject it to the same banging or biting.
adaptation-
assimilation-
accomodation-
equilibration-
constructivism-