In theory, I really like the ideas behind this model. I feel it is an attempt to get students to see how concepts are formed and to get them to create their own definitions of a concept rather than memorizing what a teacher writes on the board. I like the idea, but in an EAST environment this may present some challenges.
While the idea itself is very student centered, which is complementary to EAST philosophy, the concepts in EAST are not as concrete as in the regular classroom. This is making it hard to plan a lesson. I really feel it is going to be quite confusing for my students to be able to define a concept by its attributes when they are dealing with community service projects rather than concepts that are more easily defined.
I have chosen my concept, which is Project Selection and my attributes are the criteria that projects must meet. On paper, I feel it follows the Concept Attainment Model, but am curious to see how it plays out with my students.
Even if they are lost at first, and the concepts are hard for them to digest, I think they will learn from it and be able to apply this type of learning in other situations.
I am taping my lesson tomorrow, so I will post results of student reaction and my feelings about how successful this model was in my class.
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Thanks for sharing your lesson.. I posted on my site that I think it really helped me 'see' the benefit of using this model!
ReplyDeleteI also liked the concept attainment model but am not sure that I taught it the way it was designed to be taught.
ReplyDeleteI think this model is a good one to teach and can work in all subject area. I like the fact that you can use it in different ways and it still fits the model. Look forward to seeing some of the films on these lessons. See you in class on Monday.
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