Penny Tramel: The Teaching Cycle

Professor Fischer's reading and lecture really caused me to reflect on the teaching cycle as it relates to the brain and how we learn. His research in the area of assessment, particularly Lectical Assessment, has huge applications for education if they can get the training time a little less cumbersome. Active intelligence was a term used that made me think of how we constantly think and process information, as well as apply and problem solve. Professor Honan's lecture in the afternoon in aligning resources to improve student achievement was excellent as well. It was very interesting to see how an entire system was aligned through a "jolting" process and it was helpful for me to reflect on some of the things that could have been done to make it more palatable for the community and school personnel.

Penny Tramel