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=// Monday 1/16 //= = = // Martin Luther King Day - No school for students //

=// Tuesday 1/17 //= It's the start of a new semester. Share one of the goals you wrote in you Principles of EAT journal with your classmates. Do you have the method and time frame indicated in your written goal?
 * Personal Goals **

Finish reading pp. 197 - 203 in **Teaching**. Participate in the class discussion about how teachers can draw out the best in their students by understanding their learning preferences.

Complete your journal entry featuring the definitions of each of the nine areas of Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner). Highlight those that you feel are yours.

=// Wednesday 1/18 //=
 * [[image:global & analytical.jpeg align="right"]]Portfolio Development ** Global or Analytical? What do these words means? How do they apply to the way we use our brains? Are you a global thinker or an analytical thinker? What does that mean?

First, take the Assessment and see where you fall on the hemisphericity scale. Which side of your brain is the dominant side? By how much?

Then, read about how hemisphericity affects the way you prefer to learn. Discuss your similarities and differences with the learners in your group.

=// Thursday 1/22 //= How do determine students' learning preferences without giving them an assessment? Through observation teachers hear and see clues that alert them to their learners' preferences.

What would you hear an analytical learner say? What would you hear a global learner say? After you read about this, complete the cut and paste activity and see if you can identify global and analytical learners.



=// Friday 1/23 //=


 * [[image:True Colors i.jpeg align="right"]]Portfolio Development ** What are your TRUE COLORS? Take the instrument and find out what that might indicate about you. Apply this knowledge and relate it to what you have learned this semester about characteristics needed by educators.

[|What Does My Color Mean for Me?]

=// Monday 1/26 //=

True Colors writing assignment
 * [[image:True Colors II.jpeg align="left"]]Portfolio Development **
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=// Tuesday 1/27 //=


 * [[image:Walter Mitty.jpg align="right"]]Portfolio Development **

So, what do you plan to do with your life? How will you achieve your goals to reach the career you desire?

Read the original work, __//**The Secret Life of Walter Mitty**//__. What were his fantasies and dreams? Could he have realized some of these things through a career change? How will your chosen career help you realize your dreams?

Begin researching your career following the guidelines given in class and using Career Cruising. You will have to use your time effectively, so you should consider working on this outside of class.


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