A1+Knowledge

**A1: SAS teachers will demonstrate knowledge of content and pedagogy**

Benchmarks: Wiki entry prompts ask students in General Psychology to reflect on topics which relate to their own experience. The responses reveal that they reflect on themselves in the "real world" through their own development as well as how they adapt to a newer technology as a tool in their education. (**below is an excerpt from the class wiki demostrating a student reflecting on her SAS experience)** = Social Development (RESPOND) =
 * 1) Displays relevant content knowledge
 * 2) Connects curriculum and real world in a variety of ways
 * 3) Demonstrates pedagogy that reflects current research on best practices

Based on the text reading, describe your temperament when you were 10 years old and note if there were any changes to you socially today. What do you think influenced the changes in your own social development? Posted Feb 22, 2009 12:48 pm - [|[delete]]
 * [[image:https://www.wikispaces.com/user/pic/1203307636/mcvean-lg.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="mcvean" link="https://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/mcvean"]] || [|mcvean]

|| My development from the age of 10 to now, at 17 has been drastic. I was very shy and lacked confidence. I didn't have very many friends because I was raised as an only child and couldn't relate to people my own age. It wasn't until I was in 10th grade here at SAS that I finally grew out of my shyness. In a smaller, more diverse community where I felt more comfortable reaching out to others, really helped my self-esteem. I also think that my change was truly my own personal will. I hated the way I had been living previously so when I moved to China I decided to go out of my comfort zone. Ever since then I have been considered a generally outgoing person which to me is pretty strange. || (this excerpt below allows students to respond to a question about technology which they all rely on there real life while relating it to the Psych chapter unit on __Consciouness)__ = Sleep Texting (respond) = Read the article from the below link and decide if think it is possible young people are really sleep texting. Explain your answer and decide if you may be prone to sleep texting or any other sleep habit which involves technology?
 * [[image:https://ssl.wikicdn.com/i/user_none_lg.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="ElleM" link="https://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/ElleM"]] || [|ElleM]
 * [[image:https://www.wikispaces.com/user/pic/1203307636/mcvean-lg.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="mcvean" link="https://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/mcvean"]] || [|mcvean]

[] Posted Nov 7, 2008 11:36 am - [|[delete]]

|| I do believe that it is really possible for adolescents to sleep text because i agree that the texting is a habit that many young people have and it is one that is repeated over and over again which would allow it to be committed to muscle memory. People sleep walk, eat, talk and drive in their sleep and these are all daily rituals, so why can't the new generation complete their daily rituals in their sleep?
 * [[image:https://ssl.wikicdn.com/i/user_none_lg.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="VictoriaLynne" link="https://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/VictoriaLynne"]] || [|VictoriaLynne]

I believe that i am prone to sleep texting and i have had this occur to me when i look at my phone in the morning and it is laying on my bed open and a message has been sent from my phone to another. Although it takes many steps to send a message it is already out of habit that i don't need to look at my phone to do it anyways. ||

The link below allow students to listen to current topics in the field of psychology as they apply to their unit of study. In this example, psychology students listened to a discussion about intelligence testing on NPR podcasts.

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