PLN week 9-1

This week I read a very interesting article by Meyer titled "November...Already???", it is about how students should by November and this far into the school years students should be taking control of their learning and how their learning is going so far.

He thought that his classes were going well and thought that a majority of his students are taking taking control of their learning and that they are very focus and serious about it. On the other hand thought there are some areas of struggle for them, such as their first test. The part that they really struggled with was vocabulary and being able to identify problems and also being able to know what the instructor wanted form them in their assignments.

Some times I also feel like that, some times my teachers don't do a very good job at explaining what they want out of the assignment, but them again if I don't understand it is my responsibility to go and say that I don't understand, so for these older students it shouldn't be a problem. In this blog one of his students had just got back from visiting a collage campus and she sat in a political science class and kind of compared her teacher and their class to the collage teacher and class. She thought that they were doing the exact same thing that they were doing, but she thought that her teacher and the collage professor were different. She thought that the professor was more clear and understanding, but then again was more of a lecturer. While on the other hand her teacher was less of a lecturer and a little less of understanding. Yeah the collage students understood what they were to do, but think about how they are going to do if they don't understand how to do it because there is a differece between understanding what to do and how to do it. My teachers yes are don't really explain what to do on an assingment well, but when I do understand I know what to do it is easyier for me to know how to do it.