Week 2 T2P Essay

Another fun and productive day. GNA mentioned early in class that every minute of our six hour day is planned for learning and assessment. That concept dovetailed nicely with the Hanson reading which stated "Virtue or Vice emit a breath every minute." In the classroom there is no dead time; teaching and learning are going on with regard to either content or morality or both at any given time. The readings were thought provoking and we reviewed them together as a class. The short videos were a fun way to address the issues of learning styles and learning of content. We began to discuss human development, which is of course a gigantic field. The main topics I took away from that presentation are the ideas that each student (and the teacher)has a lot more going on at any one time than learning the lesson of the day, and that the classroom is a very complex and fluid environment. It was interesting to do another concept map and compare it to last week's. Our group was able to clarify what we feel contributes to successful learning, and made the student and all that he/she brings to the table a much bigger factor.

If a student feels comfortable and emotionally safe in the learning environment than successful learning will occur because the student is able to express themself and ask questions without fear of judgement.