Being Culturally Aware

My curriculum web is designed for middle school science students. My population is diverse in every which way, economically, academically, and culturally. The activities on my curriculum web vary and touch upon several multiple intelligences. Some of the intelligences that will be used include mathematical/logical, verbal linguistic, spatial, and bodily kinesthetic. Also, students will use cooperative learning in some of my activities. That will help students who are low and need support from others. Whenever I design an activity, I always try to think of ways to include all kinds of learners.

Constructivist Learning

I believe in the philosophy of constructivist learning and try to incorporate in my classroom whenever I can. However, I'm not used to learning through the constructivist method because I was never taught this way through my years of schooling. Since I barely have any experience learning this way, I'm very apprehensive and nervous about this lesson. I really feel lost and confused at times, not sure if I'm doing it right. I would like to have some guidance along the way. The only advantage of this lesson is that I developed my own pacing which is great because I have such a busy schedule. I feel Dreamweaver is very complicated and too time consuming. I don't understand the purpose of using Dreamweaver when there are so many templates out there to create websites and they are so much easier. Hopefully, Dreamweaver will grow on me and become easier.