Picture Retrieved from: https://leeduser.buildinggreen.com/content/eic-model-using-environment-integrating-context-improving-student-learning-state-education Week 6: February 23-March 2nd: This week in ESCI, our professor shared resources that were related to the EIC model. What is the EIC model? It is when we use the Environment as a Integrating Context . It can be seen as anything connecting one to others and the natural and social community outside of the classroom and school. It has a lot to do with using the school and community as framework while the students construct their own learning guided by educators using "proven educational practices" (SEER, 2013). The EIC Model uses 6 practices, which are: 1. Integrated-interdisciplinary instructions 2. Community learning 3. Collaborative instruction 4. Learner based, constructivist approaches 5. Combinations of independent and cooperative learning 6. Local, natural community surroundings (To learn more about these 6 practices, use this link) I want to talk about some of the benefits there are within using EIC model: - Often leads to better performance on academic achievement in reading, writing, math, science and social studies - It often reduces discipline and any classroom management issues - Often leads to increased engagement and enthusiasm for learning - Students often have greater pride and ownership in accomplishments after using the EIC model - Often piques interest which allows for a higher rate of participation and then leads to improved learning EIC can be seen when students participate in: field trips, inviting guest speakers or attending a guest speaker, doing group work and projects, as well as doing lessons and learning outside in the schoolyard. My ESCI professor suggested the places below to go to and apply the EIC model: - Wascana Centre - Nature Sask - Canadian Wildlife Federation - Wolf Ridge Environment Learning Centre - Journey North During my pre-internship I am teaching a math unit on measurement and I want to integrate measurement by going outside and using the tools we know to observe and measure objects outside.
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Xia
3/31/2021 05:11:18 pm
These links are resources for you to check out and further explore, not necessarily the places to go to apply EIC model. You could certainly integrate some or many of them in your EIC framed planning.
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Week Two: January 19th-21st
I can't believe it is already the second week of this semester, I am slowly but surely getting back into the swing of things. I am enjoying having a routine again (Winter Break always plays around with my routine). Although I am glad to be back into routine, I am also feeling very overwhelmed with the work load this semester. I think I have 4 different calendars and due date lists to ensure I am staying on track. This week in ESCI 310, I first read the featured poem, "Two Kinds of Intelligence" by Rumi. As stated in the write-up, "Rumi suggests that the second knowing is already within us, ready to flow out, but at The Reader we know that self-knowledge isn't always so forthcoming, sometimes you need to unlock it" (Rumi, 2021). I enjoyed reading through Rumi's poem as it shared the two kinds of intelligences. I could relate to this poem as a future teacher. I want to remind my students that the other kind of tablet it one that is already preserved inside of you. As Kumi says, "this second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out" (Kumi, 2021). In ESCI 310 we also went through the "Etched in Stone" & "There Is No Truth" readings. Next class, we will be having a debate on these two polar opposite view points. Next blog post, I will share how the debate went and discuss my opinion, stay tuned! Week One: January 2nd-14th
I am excited to begin this semester, this is my LAST full semester of classes before my internship. This semester I am enrolled in ESCI 310. This course is titled, "Becoming Civic Science Educators". As I shared in my blog post on URCourses, I had a great high-school science experience. I loved biology, chemistry and physics. The main reason I loved them was because of what we were doing. The work was a lot of hands-on and practical experiments. Some of the experiences I had in high-school science class, still stand out to me. Due to this experience, it makes me, a future teacher, want to implement fun, hands-on, interactive, and engaging science material for my future students. The first week of ESCI 310, we were asked to read "Two-Eyed Seeing". This read was a method that was new to me. A good quote from the reading that "explains Etuaptmumk - Two-Eyed Seeing by saying it refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges and ways of knowing ... and learning to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all" (Cape Breton University, 2021). This method respectfully and passionately asks that we bring together our different ways of knowing. When we use all of our ways of knowing and understandings it leaves the world a better place. AuthorHaley Miller |