After taking the course of The Foundation of Cultural Foundation, I become aware of culturally responsive teaching and love the idea of inclusion and being “soft piece of the heart”.

As a teacher who have been educated to now the importance of individual difference and inquiry-based learning, I prefer learning from the nature and I think that kids should be exposed to the nature environment and explore in it. This experience empower them to observe and learn from the places closed to/around them.

When I was pursuing my master degree in SUNY Albany, my professor asked us to pick up two leaves belongs to the same tree, observed , and write a reflection on how this can be applied and affect our instruction. This was the first time I learned from the nature and realized the importance of differentiated instruction.

Thanks to whoever helped me during these few days. It was a ridiculous story going on, but with all your help, I cope it well. After struggling these few days, I decided to laugh more : )

1. Grammar Jokes

1. What do you call Santa’s brothers and sisters? Relative clauses.
2. “A woman, without her man, is nothing.”
   “A woman: without her, man is nothing.”
   Punctuation is important.
3. A man went into a fish shop and said, “Can I have a tail end, please?”
   So the man behind the counter said, ‘And they all lived happily ever after.’
4. Whoever put the “b” in SUBTLE deserves a pat on the back.
5. The past, the present and the future all walked into a bar. It was tense.
6. Double negatives are a big NO-NO.
7. Teacher: “Name two pronouns?”
   Student: “Who, me?”
8. What’s the difference between a cat and a comma?
   One has claws at the end of its paws. The other is a pause at the end of a clause.
9. 5 vowels, 8 consonants, a comma, and an exclamation mark appeared in court today. They’re due to be sentenced some time next month.
10. What do you say to comfort a Grammar teacher? There Their They’re.
11. Never date an apostrophe. They’re too possessive.
12. “Can I go to the toilet?”
    “I don’t know, can you?”
13. “Can I ask you a question?”
    “You just have.”
14. 

2. Math Jokes

1. Parallel lines have so much in common.
   It’s a shame they’ll never meet.
2. “What can you tell me about angle c?”
   “Hmm, it’s acute?”
   “No, it’s a small island off the north coast of Wales.”
3. There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator. Only a fraction of you will get this.
4. A farmer told his dog to find the sheep and round them up. When the dog came back he asked how many sheep there were and the dog said “50”. The farmer said “Hmm, that’s funny. There were only forty-seven this morning.” The dog replied: “You said round them up.”
5. Why do teenagers always travel in groups of three?
   Because they can’t even.
6. Went to Fibonacci conference last week, was as good as the last two put together.
7. Why is the corner always the hottest part of the room?
   Because it’s 90 degrees
8. Do you know what’s odd?
   Numbers that can’t be divided by 2.
9. Why was the fraction skeptical about marrying the decimal?
   Because he would have to convert.
10. Why is the obtuse triangle upset?
    Because he’s never right.
11. What do you call an empty parrot cage?
    A polygon.
12. What do you call a group of friends who love math?
    AlgeBROS.
13. Nelson’s Column is 15 ft tall. Nelson was 5 ft tall. That’s Horatio of 3:1
14. What type of snake measures 3.14159 meters long?
    A pi-thon.
15. You know what’s odd? Every other number.
16. What does the 0 say the 8?
    “I like your belt.”
17. I went on holiday last week. I got an odd-job man in, gave him a list of ten jobs to do while I was away. When I got back, he’d only done jobs 1,3,5,7, and 9.
18. Where are all the top mathematicians buried? In the Symmetry.
19. I always give 100% at school. 30% on Mondays, 25% on Tuesdays, 20% on Wednesdays, 15% on Thursdays and 10% on Fridays!
20. In the Periodic Table class, teachers have been warned not to let iron and carbon sit beside each other due to their tendency to steal.
21. What do you call a ruler, protractor and a compass all hanging out together? Weapons of math instruction.
22. What did the acorn say when it grew up? “Geometry” (gee-I’m-a-tree)
23. What do you call an adorable angle… Acute angle!
24. Why don’t mathematicians sunbathe? Because they can use sin and cos to get a tan
25. When teaching how to tell the time:
    “What’s a dentist’s favorite time of day?Tooth-hurty!
26. My math teacher asked me why I was doing my sums on the floor.
    I said: “You told us to do them without using tables.”

3. Science Jokes

1. ‘Geology Rocks!’
2. What does the thermometer say to the cylinder?
   “You may have graduated, but I sure have more degrees than you.”
3. What do you do with a sick chemist? If you can’t helium and you can’t curium then you’d better barium
4. What do you call an acid with an attitude? A-mean-oh acid.
5. Why do geographers find mountains so funny?
   Because they’re hill areas.
6. A photon walks into a hotel and asks if he needs any help with his luggage. The photon responds: “No thanks, I’m traveling light.”
7. Never trust an atom.. they make up everything.
8. Chemists are always great at solving problems because they have all the solutions.
9. Reading a book on antigravity at the moment… I just can’t put it down.
10. A neutron walks into a bar, and ask the bartender for a drink. The bartender responds: “For you, no charge.”
11. I heard that Oxygen and Magnesium were dating and I was like “OMg”
12. One tectonic plate bumped into another one and said: “Oops, my fault!”
13. Why did the cloud date the fog?
    Because he was so down to earth.
14. Since light travels faster than sound, people may appear smart until you hear them speak.
15. What’s your favorite element? Helium. I can’t speak highly enough about it
16. What’s the ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter?
    Eskimo Pi.
17. Pascal, Newton, and Einstein are playing hide and seek. Einstein is counting. Pascal runs and hides but Newton draws a 1m square around himself. Einstein finishes counting and says: “Newton, found you.”
    “No no, Einy. You’ve found one Newton per square meter. You’ve found Pascal!”
18. There are 10 types of people that understand binary. Those that do and those that don’t.
19. XX female
    XY male
    YYY Delilah
20. An atom was sitting by the side of the lab crying. A second atom came over and asked if the first atom was OK. The first atom replied “I think I’ve lost an electron,” to which the second atom asked, “Are you positive?”
21. Be like a proton, always positive.

4. English Jokes

1. Last night I dreamt I wrote The Lord of the Rings. Then I realized I was just Tolkien in my sleep.
2. Why does Sweden have barcodes on all of its ships? So they can Scan-di-navy-in.
3. What pencil did Shakespeare write with?
   2B.
4. Who’s the King of the classroom? The ruler.
5. I’m close friends with 25 letters of the alphabet… I don’t know Y.
6. I avoid clichés like the plague.
7. Last night my classroom was broken into and all of the dictionaries were stolen. I’m lost for words.
8. I’ve never met a three, but I have… metaphor.
9. You can throw an envelope as far as you want, but it’ll still be stationary.
10. I’ve been working on a Scandinavian joke. But it’s not quite Finnish.
11. What do you call a belt made from watches? A waist of time.
12. Why can’t you run in a camp site but only ran? Because it passed tents.
13. “I’d like to start this lesson by showing you a small clip” *pulls out a bulldog clip from pocket* “Here it is!”
14. What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator!
15. Why did the scarecrow win a Nobel Prize? For being “out standing” in his field.
16. What do you call a Frenchman in sandals? Philippe Philoppe.
17. How do you get Pikachu on a bus? You poke him on.
18. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but you mean your mother.
19. How many eggs do French folk have for breakfast? One. Because one egg is un œuf.
20. I don’t think I deserved zero on this test!
    Teacher: I agree, but that’s the lowest mark I could give you.
21. I will always tell you to follow your dreams, but I’ll never let you sleep in class.
22. What did the ghost teacher say to the class? “Look at the board and I will go through it again.”

5. History & Geography jokes

1. Why did Henry VIII put skittles on his lawn? Because he had to take Anne Boleyn.
2. I like Geography. You know where you are with Geography.
3. A Roman walks into a bar. He holds up two fingers and says, “Five beers, please!”
4. Why were the early days of history called the dark ages?
   Because there were so many knights.
5. Who invented fractions?
   Henry the 1/4th.
6. What did they do at the Boston Tea Party?
   I don’t know, I wasn’t invited!
7. What did Mason say to Dixon?
   We’ve got to draw the line here!
8. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
   At the bottom.
9. How was the Roman Empire cut in half?
   With a pair of Caesars! 
10. Why was WW1 so quick? Because they were Russian.
    Why was WW2 so slow? Because they were Stalin.
11. On a scale of one to invading Russia in winter how bad was your idea?
12. Where did Nicholas Romanov II get his coffee? Tsarbucks.
13. What did Richard III say when a planning proposal was submitted for building a car park? “Over my dead body.”
14. Walk into the 18th-century club like “Whatup I died of a cough.”
15. A globe means the world to a Geography teacher.
16. April showers bring May flowers and Mayflowers bring smallpox.
17. How did I get from Iraq to Pakistan at record speed? I-ran
18. Who led the Pedants’ Revolt? Which Tyler.
19. A man knocks on the door of the Kremlin. “Is Lenin?”

Reference: https://www.boredteachers.com/post/teacher-jokes-for-your-classroom

In order to celebrate our national day, Double Tenth Day, here are some meaningful pictures. As I recently took the classes of the Cultural Foundations of Education, I am more aware of my identities and social justice. Therefore, Happy Birthday, Taiwan, my origin! I cherish the freedom, democracy, my rights, and my choice I have now!

Look at today’s Google. It is a Taiwan bear!

Learning proper etiquette is a life skill.

In The Definition Of Blended Learning, we offered that ‘blended learning is a model that combines online and face-to-face learning spaces and experiences.’ Below, we identify and describe 12 different types of blended learning.

1. Station Rotation Blended Learning

Station-Rotation blended learning is a: “…model (that) allows students to rotate through stations on a fixed schedule, where at least one of the stations is an online learning station. This model is most common in elementary schools because teachers are already familiar with rotating in centers and stations.

2. Lab Rotation Blended Learning

‘The Lab Rotation’ model of blended learning, similar to “Station Rotation,’ works by “allow(ing) students to rotate through stations on a fixed schedule…in a dedicated computer lab allow(ing) for flexible scheduling arrangements with teachers…enabl(ing) schools to make use of existing computer labs.”

3. Remote Blended Learning (also referred to as Enriched Virtual)

This approach differs from the Flipped Classroom model in the balance of online to face-to-face instructional time. In an Enriched Virtual blended learning model, students wouldn’t see/work with/learning from a teacher on a daily basis face-to-face but would in a ‘flipped’ setting.

4. Flex Blended Learning

The ‘Flex’ is included in types of Blended Learning and its model is one in which… “a course or subject in which online learning is the backbone of student learning, even if it directs students to offline activities at times. Students move on an individually customized, fluid schedule among learning modalities. The teacher of record is on-site, and students learn mostly on the brick-and-mortar campus, except for any homework assignments. The teacher of record or other adults provide face-to-face support on a flexible and adaptive as-needed basis through activities such as small-group instruction, group projects, and individual tutoring.”

5. The ‘Flipped Classroom’ Blended Learning

Perhaps the most widely known version of blended learning, a ‘Flipped Classroom’ is one where students are introduced to content at home, and practice working through it at school supported by a teacher and/or peers. In this way, traditional roles for each space are ‘flipped.’

6. Individual Rotation Blended Learning

The Individual Rotation model allows students to rotate through stations, but on individual schedules set by a teacher or software algorithm. Unlike other rotation models, students do not necessarily rotate to every station; they rotate only to the activities scheduled on their playlists.”

7. Project-Based Blended Learning

Blended Project-Based Learning is a model in which the student uses both online learning—either in the form of courses or self-directed access—and face-to-face instruction and collaboration to design, iterate, and publish project-based learning assignments, products, and related artifacts.

8. Self-Directed Blended Learning

In Self-Directed blended learning, students use a combination of online and face-to-face learning to guide their own personalized inquiry, achieve formal learning goals, connect with mentors physically and digitally, etc. As the learning is self-directed, the roles of ‘online learning’ and physical teachers change, and there are no formal online courses to complete.

In Self-Directed blended learning, one challenge for teachers is to be able to judge the and (somehow) success of the learning experience without de-authenticating it.

9. Inside-Out Blended Learning

In Inside-Out blended learning, experiences are planned to ‘finish’ or ‘end up’ beyond the physical classroom, but still require and benefit from the unique advantages of both physical and digital spaces.

In both the Outside-In and Inside-Out models, the nature of the ‘online learning’ is less critical than the focus on platforms, spaces, people, and opportunity beyond the school walls. (The ‘online’ components could be self-directed inquiry and/or formal eLearning courses and curriculum.)

10. Outside-In Blended Learning

In Outside-In blended learning, experiences are planned to ‘start’ in the non-academic physical and digital environments students use on a daily basis, but finish inside a classroom.

This could mean traditional letter grades and assessment forms, or less traditional teaching and learning that simply uses the classroom as a ‘closed-circuit’ publishing ‘platform’—a safe space to share, be creative, collaborate, and give and receive feedback that grows student work.

11. Supplemental Blended Learning 

In this model, students complete either entirely online work to supplement their day-to-day face-to-face learning, or entirely face-to-face learning experiences to supplement the learning gained in online courses and activities.

12. Mastery-Based Blended Learning

Students rotate between online and face-to-face learning (activities, assessments, projects, etc.) based on the completion of mastery-based learning objectives.

Assessment design is crucial in any mastery-based learning experience; the ability to use face-to-face and digital assessment tools is either powerful or ‘complicated’ depending on the mindset of the learning designer.

Reference: https://www.teachthought.com/learning/12-types-of-blended-learning/?fbclid=IwAR2GEg36d4-GuL-8DUiLztU6avNjeWAqAG0-1IB-jglsGC7Q2bMaet1tpAU