Padlet Week 2 Group 1 Discussion by Addison Ashcroft

Principle 5

addiashcroft — 2025-09-02 19:12:05 UTC

I found principle 5 to be very interesting. It is important to find the motivation behind students work. It seems like if an assignment is done just to be done, you get the bare minimum. Whereas, if an assignment is done with the intentions to learn from it you will get deeper thoughts and learning from it. I like that Dr. Kelli talked about giving students the choice. Students benefit most when completing an assignment they are most comfortable to responding to whether that be multiple choice, with a partner, etc. Motivation is key especially for these online classes and I found it fascinating to learn more behind what motivates students and what helps them perform to their best ability.

Principle 2

2025-09-03 18:00:22 UTC

I like principle 2 because it explains good ways to help kids learn better. Kids learn better when they have spaced out practice then mass practice. Because if students can practice retaining something every day for a couple minutes they will be able to better process the material around them. If you overload a kids brain it will make it really hard for them to process the material that is being given to them. If when teaching kids you can help them attach meaning to the the things they are learning about and give them helpful examples they will be able to retain the information better. Songs and stories are really great ways to help kids learn better because they have something to tie that information too that will remind them of the information. Its important to also keep using the information that the kids are learning other wise they will forget it. So it is important for kids to be able to retain information properly.

by: Ella Young

Principle 5: Motivation

2025-09-04 20:02:29 UTC

I really liked this principle because I have always believed in motivation. I think that motivation truly impacts how someone views themselves as well as things that are around them. I think that motivation can push the students for greatness, but it comes from themselves as well as from us as teachers. I think that being able to tell the students that they can do it, they can start to believe in themselves. I also thought it was a great way to make sure that students have the ability to figure out what motivates themselves, and how to create the belief for the success that they can achieve. Without motivation, students can learn all interest in things and school, which can cause them to feel almost like nothing. With the right motivation students can learn to do anything and everything.

Principle 6 Common Misconceptions

2025-09-04 21:24:33 UTC

Learning principle 6 was the most interesting to me because I believe that in order for educators to properly teach students, they need to let go of beliefs that may negatively affect their teaching. Misconceptions can oftentimes lead to teachers employing ineffective strategies which can be harmful towards their students and hinder their learning. I will admit, I have always assumed that people learn best based on their learning styles so I was very surprised to learn that students do not have learning styles. This is the first time that I’ve been told of this but it makes complete sense. While students have preferred learning styles, we as teachers need to make sure we teach lessons in the most effective way for the given topic, and not waste time with unnecessary, ineffective lessons. I also really liked how principle 6 mentioned that novices and experts can think alike. Oftentimes, people assume that children are incapable of understanding complex topics beyond their grade level, which is incredibly incorrect. While it can be true that students won’t understand extremely complex scientific topics, we as teachers need to not lower our expectations when it comes to our students, and instead encourage them to think deeper and ask questions.

Principle 1

peachsjo — 2025-09-04 22:40:46 UTC

I thought principle 1 was really interesting because it helped me understand how the brain works when it is learning something. I think that as an educator it is so important to gauge a general idea of the base knowledge students have before you try to build on it. Knowing what a student already knows, and building your instruction to specifically connect and add to that knowledge would really help students as they engage with new material. I think that will especially be important right now as many classrooms are seeing a big deficit between the proficiency levels of the students. If I am assuming that all of my students already understand a concept and are building off of that to learn what I am trying to teach, I could very easily lose various students who did not have that base knowledge to start from.

Principle 3

a02419552 — 2025-09-05 00:41:55 UTC

Feedback is one of my favorite parts of learning! I am constantly looking for ways I can improve, so I found this principle to be so interesting. In my education classes so far, I have found issues with traditional grading systems as they are not rooted in feedback. When an assignment is designed with improvement and growth in mind, feedback must be given!! Teacher who use a rubric on a scale of 4-exceeds expectations to 0-did not meet expectations do not fully understand feedback and growth mindsets! If the only way to get full credit on an assignment is to exceed the expectations of the teacher, the system is not balanced. Rather than students struggling to overachieve, we should utilize feedback to provide students the environment to do their best, find where they can improve, and act on the feedback to put it in practice and achieve the improvement.

Principle 3

cicilyparkinson — 2025-09-08 00:28:57 UTC

I really like principle three because it emphasizes how important feedback can be. I personally like to receive feedback on an assignment so that I can know what I did good and what I need to work on. I like the charts the material shows. How it’s not just what you receive but also how you use it to take action. Are you going to use it to grow and change? I really like what Dr. Kelli said in the video about what is the point of having feedback if there is nothing you can do with it to become better and to change. Even though she was talking about it in the school sense I think that that applies pretty much everywhere. Why comment something if you know there’s nothing that can do about it to become better. Anyways, I think that when we use our feedback that is when we really grow and learn to understand what is being taught. I like the sentence in the assignment that says, “Explanatory and focused on improvement rather than merely verifying performance.” To me this what feedback should be.