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I found the learning principle five to be the most intriguing because the responsibility falls on the teacher to be a guide for learning that students should feel motivated and believe they belong in the classroom. We always hear about how we need to create a classroom where every student belongs and wants to be there and this is really solidifying how important it is to be there for your students checking in on them making sure they feel heard and are an important contributor to the class as a whole.

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The learning principle I chose was the 3rd one (how do students solve problems). I chose this one because I am very passionate about the right kind of feedback and how this can skyrocket learning. I’ve experienced teachers that have given both good and bad feedback, and not only did I learn better with the good feedback (it was clear, focused, and explanatory), but I actually enjoyed the learning process much more and it then encouraged me to learn even more new things rather than give up. To go a step further, this can also be true with personal versus group feedback. Studies have shown that when students are given personal and positive feedback they are better equipped and will perform better in the future than students who received only group feedback.

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I chose learning principle #1 because I feel like I related the most to it! Something that really enhances my learning is to make connections to my previous knowledge! I believe making connections and building bridges between different points is a very productive and helpful way to learn.

I hope to teach Spanish one day and while learning a second language is one of the most difficult things (for me at least) to learn! One thing that helped me exponentially was to build everything new I learned on top of something else. Making connections helps expand vocabulary, and learning new conjugations is best done by first learning basic conjugations.

More than anything, I believe having experiences will help solidify a new piece of knowledge more than anything because any time one reflects back on that memory or situation, they will remember what they learned.

I also plan on teaching English, and accordingly I just happen to love metaphors and analogies. In a similar way to making connections to past experiences, I believe that it helps students to remember things they have learned by comparing it to something else, or it helps them learn something by making an analogy to something they already understand.

More than anything, I love the idea of making a connection in some sort of way to new material being introduced and I believe it is one of the best learning strategies.

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I loved learning principle six! I have grown up my whole life thinking that I was a "visual learner". I always just accepted the idea that learning styles were real. As I watched the instructional video, I remembered times when I learned a concept a non-visual way and how that confused my idea of being a visual learner. I'm actually really grateful to know that learning styles are not real. I feel like knowing that gives me the opportunity to be more intentional in expanding my learning. If I am more open to learning in different ways, I believe it will allow me to interact with other people and the world in ways that I was not doing before.

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I found principle 4 to be the most intriguing because I think we often overload kids with more information than we need to. I have seen the way kids can get overwhelmed and feel bad about themselves because they have been overloaded with too much information. My sister struggles with this a lot in math. She gets too much information given to her all at once and then she doesn't pick it all up. Because she doesn't understand certain things, when she gets to future lessons, she does not know the background for the topic. This means that she just gets farther and farther behind because she has been too overloaded with information that she doesn't understand. As a teacher, knowing how to keep the information to a level students can handle will help students feel confidence in their ability to do work. Overwhelming students with information can make students who already struggle in school struggle with their self esteem related to their academic abilities. We can help them get the information in a manageable way and help them see that they can handle complex information.

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Kevin Winsor

I chose to talk about principle two which is about how students learn and retain new information. This principle was very interesting to me for a couple reasons. The main reason was that it talked about how students can better retain the new information they are being taught. In the video and in the reading they gave some examples of things that help students retain information. One that I really related too was when they talked about finding a need or use for the new information and how that can impact you retaining that information. One example included telling a story and how that can help you retain the information because it is something that students can personally relate to so that can help them remember the information taught because it was taught with a story that the students can remember. Another quick tactic for helping students retain the things they have been taught is by using songs or repetitive things that can help people remember, an example of this would be like the ABC song that was taught to you as a kid that will help you never forget. I think this principle really stuck out to me because I have remembered the things teachers have taught me when they have used stories to teach them to me.

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I found this learning principle the most relevant and interesting to me personally. Principle 5 highlights the teacher's responsibility in helping students believe in what they can do, should do, and will do in the classroom. Throughout high school and even now, I consider myself a self-motivated person and have always felt that the responsibility for staying motivated in my academics fell solely on me. While that may not be a negative thing, I can think of several times in high school and in my college career when I lost that motivation, and I now imagine how differently things would have been if I had had a teacher who WANTED to motivate me and knew HOW to motivate me. That is something I could have benefitted from significantly.

I just got back from a professional development seminar in North Carolina, where we talked a lot about the different personalities and 'color energies' that people possess. Those discussions gave me a lot of insights into how different kinds of people are motivated and in what kinds of environments they might thrive. This recent experience further solidified why this principle feels so relevant and important to me. Taking time to get to know students on a personal level is a priority for me as a teacher because that is the first step in fulfilling the responsibility of motivating students to engage and succeed.

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I found principle 1 the most interesting. I think it's fascinating to understand how we learn and understand new ideas and concepts. It's so important to understand this for the benefit of our students and ourselves. This principle focuses on how students learn new things and the main way they learn and conceptualize is by connecting to their previous knowledge and experiences. Some ways we can use this to our advantage in the classroom are peer work, analogies, active engagement, and scaffolding. I have seen this personally in my own learning where I was able to make connections or recognize previous knowledge and it made it much easier to remember concepts and helped to better understand the new ideas by adding on to my previous knowledge instead of starting from scratch.

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I chose principle 1 because I use this principle the most when I am coaching a sport. I talk to the player about what movements, strategies, or skills they already understand and then we build on that. They use their previously learned and acquired knowledge in the game or practice to learn new things independently. This is also used often in the history classroom. You usually start a unit talking about what you already know and the event, person, or topic, and then read/watch/listen to something new to help you acquire more knowledge. We sometimes use graphic organizers to organize the things the students already know and then add new information as they learn it during the class activity. I liked this image as a visual on how to explain the principle.