How do the EDFD 400/401 and EDFD
460/461 courses, taken together, help you
now interpret the 3 parts of the Pedagogical
Triangle listed in the Teacher Noticing PPT?
My EDFD 401 and 461 helped me interpret
the pedagogical triangle in multiple ways they
both revealed both theories and social aspects
that are related to teaching. There are three
side that these classes helped me understand,
first being the teachers relationship and
understanding of students, these classes
helped me with this because it introduced me
to developmental theories that helped me
understand students themselves which helped
me build my relationship with students too.
The second side that these classes helped me
understand was the teachers understanding of
how students learn content, I became more
aware of this in my 461 class when we were
going through the Erick Jensen reading that
showed how students of lower socioeconomic
status are affected in the classroom and how
we can help them learn the content which
obviously helped me interpret this side of the
triangle. The last side of the triangle that these
classes helped me understand was the
teachers relationship with and understanding
content both of these classes helped me with
this side of the triangle because they taught
me strategies of how to teach and to make
sure my students get the content, and in order
to do that I myself need to understand the
content
Discuss your rationale for the Funds of
Knowledge Data Graphic (This is NOT your
Clinical Site pictures) that you placed on the
Digital Ethnography Clinical Site page to
illustrate the most important Funds of
Knowledge data that youve identified in your
observations, conversations, and Annotated
Bibliography Sources
I will discuss my rationale in each of the
sections in my funds of knowledge graphic
each section being: experiences, social
networks, activities, skill sets, and house hold
labor histories. The first I will discuss is
experiences, I gave three bullet points for
each section and the first bullet point for this
is: sports I put this in this section because in
each of the classes I observed there were
students who participated in either school
sports or community sports so I figured I
should put this in this section because it
seems to be a big part of students life at this
age. The second bullet is health related issues
I put this in because no matter who you are
you experience health issues weather its just
allergies or physical problems, this is a part of
every students life so they have gained some
sort of experience in this. The last bullet is at
home experiences, I put this in because
students dont just have experiences at school
but a major part of what they experience is at
home which plays a major role in their FOK.
The second section in my graphic is social
networks which also had three bullets. I put
teammates and classmates in this section
because sports and school are a very big part
of students lives and they can use these peers
as recourses for problems they may have. The
second bullet of this section are friends,
friends are probably the main social network
students use because its usually who they
spend most of their time with and also use
them to their advantage. The third bullet is
family I put this because the students have an
at home life that is with their families so they
will be using them as a recourse too. The third
section is activities, the first bullet is sport, I
added this because as said before sport seems
to be a major part of students lives. The next
bullet is school, students spend most of their
time at school so this is a major activity that
they have to take part in. the last bullet is out
of school/social activities, I did this one
because I believe that this has the greatest
effect on the students attitudes and beliefs.
The fourth section is skill sets the first bullet
is academics almost all of the students I
observed seemed to be studious and do well
in school. The next bullet is athletics, again, a
lot of the students I observed were in athletics
so that is a specific skill set they have. The
third bullet is style, I used this because I was
observing white females and this seemed to
be a large skill set they have would be being
stylish and keeping up with the current
fashion trends. The last section in the FOK
graphic is household labor histories, for this I
put both lower socioeconomic status and
upper middle class because the student I
observed ranged in socioeconomic status so I
couldnt pin point a certain labor history
although most of the white girls I observed
were of higher status.