Erin Rodriguez's EPSY 3010 Blog

1. Week 4-2: Leave a  30-word  micro session summary. 2.  In the article (p. 262), the authors mentioned the importance of supporting higher-order thinking skills in undergraduate education since business and industry appeals for flexible and creative employees who can look beyond the numbers and the given information. For that reason, the authors advocated pedagogical approaches that strive to develop students’ abilities to  (1) synthesize disconnected pieces of information , ( 2) associate facts received from different sources  and (3)  evaluate the importance of information . As a student, how would you evaluate your overall college classroom learning experience in terms of developing your higher-order thinking skills? Do you think your college courses have sufficiently supported you to develop the three -(1), (2), and (3)- abilities so far? If so/not, why do you think so? Yes, my college classrooms have helped me to develop all these skills through a variety of

1. Week 4-1: Leave a  30-word  micro session summary. Instruction of students can either be teacher centered in which the teacher delivers material much like in a traditional classroom, or student centered which is focused on group work and self discovery.  2. Thinking back of your prior learning experiences in the classroom as a student, how teacher-centered classroom teaching approaches such as direct instruction have influenced your personal learning? I am a non traditional student, so I went through the school system earlier than probably most in the class having been born in 1986. When I went to school, classes were really only teacher centered, it was not until I reached college that I went to any type of student centered classroom. Being in teacher centered classrooms taught me many valuable skill sets, such as being able to focus my attention, becoming self reliant, and responsible for my own tasks. To this day I feel as though I have a high self efficacy due to m