Teaching Glossary Terms and Classroom Connections
For today's blog entry I looked around on the teaching website https://www.teach-nology.com/glossary/ and browsed through and learned more about some teaching terminology and terms. The two terms I picked out to write about today are "Concept Mapping" and "Initiation Phase". I will be explaining what these terms are and how I personally saw them being demonstrated in my internship classroom earlier this semester. Concept Mapping "A learning strategy used to aid students in organizing information; concept maps take a variety of forms suited to the type of information and activity". Concept mapping is basically a way for students to organize their notes or content information in a way that is simpler and easier for students to remember, understand, and visualize; some examples are... In my internship classroom this semester the 7th-grade students used this technique quite frequently, at least a couple times a week when taking not
