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Hello Bloggers future teacher here, Hello Emily! Growth Mindset, Honestly this is one of the aspects of teaching and education that gets me most excited and Mr. Moss I feel is an absolute exceptional example of this. The set up for Mr. Moss to teach and his general education allows for a lot of room. Not only does it include a classroom that can fit up to forty students but it also has doors that lead right into the scene shop as well as the stage and auditorium. Mr. Moss for the scenic design and tech class had the students working in literally all of these areas. There were some students in the classroom drawing a plan on the whiteboard of the makeup of the set and measuring of the set pieces. Then as you went into the shop some students were painting set pieces while others were spray-painting props. Finally as you go onto the stage there were students building the set using dollies, hammers, wood pieces and much more. This allows for students to independently choose the task tha

  Hello Blog friends, Kohlbers level of moral development I think for the most part hits it right on the nose. I remember in Jr.High thinking that all rules were important and were Mortified if I broke any kind of rules. Then once I hit high school there was some things specifically that I started not caring about and seeing some things were not necessary. For instance I would be late for class and think the attendance policy was ridiculous. Looking at the different levels the Social contract is what most teens are in. Specifically Mr. Moss got really upset at the students because they left the theater room after there production and left all of there mess without cleaning it up. Mr. Moss told the students this was disrespectful to him because he had to spend time cleaning up after 40 students. You could tell the students didn't feel bad for making a mess per say but did feel bad in putting Mr.Moss out. You can also see Universal Principle stage where students think outside of t

Hello Emily and readers!  One thing interesting when contemplating Bioecological Model is how vastly different peoples growth is. Especially when regarding high school. I feel a lot of students who either need help physically or mentally often times take theater because there is a lot you can do in that regard with students going at there own pace and you are not graded by your talents or your mental or physical abilities but simply all effort. The first implication most of all was Mr. Moss trust in these students. With the layout of the room he couldn’t be looking at all the students at once and seeing what they were doing he would go from group to group checking up on them. This honestly really impressed me because some of these jobs involved drills, spray-paint and others items that could be hazard. The second implication was the idea of hand on experience. The students on their own were literally creating the set for the play and creating everything for the productions. Even the

Hello Emily and all other readers! Today I will be reflecting information processing.  For the theater 1 class it was a perfect day to go because it was the day of their performance. They performed what they have been working on over the past couple weeks. The Performance was fanatic assembly, What that means is the students take a musical piece and create a story with that music that is only physical movements. The best part was not the performances but everyone sharing their thoughts afterwards. Specific to that day Mr. Moss had all the kids leave the classroom and meet at the stage so that everyone who performed could perform on an actual stage and everyone else could practice being in the audience and analyzing there performance. This I think really encoded and transferred information because they got to work independently and then show Mr. Moss the work and when they did he would ask them reflective questions and let them think on there work and also use positive reinforcement. T