Thursday, February 9

So, in class today we talked about how our objectives are to be the focus of our classes, about how we are to create different instructional outcomes that challenge our students to use higher levels of thinking. We talked about Bloom's Taxonomy and how we are to be able to write objectives to the different levels. I am really enjoying this class because it is making me think about what will be expected of me as a teacher, about the high standards I am to hold myself to in order to be an effective teacher for my students. This class is making me think about all of the different things that go into preparing a lesson for effective teaching. The other thing we talked about today was the different formats that could be used to create a test.  I had never really thought about how much time it takes to create a multiple choice question. After discussing the formats today, I think the best kinds of tests are those that use a variety of formats. This past semester my genetics class used a variety of questions, and I remember having to really know my stuff for those tests. Knowing that those tests were so thorough made me apply myself for that class, and so in the future I think that incorporating a variety of questions will be the most effective way of testing my students.