HPI and Podcasting

Reflection

            Achieve, through people, increasingly successful accomplishments that are valued by all organizational stakeholders (p.35). This is the vision of the Human Performance Improvement that we find in the chapter 14 of the Trends and Issues book. I can relate this vision to my professional practice because as a teacher I hope to achieve successful accomplishments through my students, when my students make a good performance that’s an achievement for me and all the educational stakeholders.

            Human Performance Improvement involves the behaviorism approach that I constantly use in my professional practice. Behavior is individual activity whereas the outcomes of behavior are the ways in which the behaving individual’s environment is somehow different as a result of his or her behavior (p.136), to stimulate (reward/punishment) my students to achieve the desired results is an important part of my instructional design.

            I can see many opportunities where the ideas developed in this chapter could help me in my practice. For example: the Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model. Although this model is not intended for k-12 education the behaviorism approach in it, can be very helpful for my practice. In the model, we can see the stimulus as a relevant and frequent feedback on adequacy of performance, the response as organize work processes, and the consequences for poor performance.  The part of the stimulus in the model can help my students to be more involved in the class, through feedback, reward or punish depending on their behavior.

Podcast:
 

Grammar girl: Quick and dirty tips for better writing

This is a very useful podcast about good grammar and writing, and the author is very charismatic. The duration of the podcast is 8 minutes.

Mignon Fogarty is the host of Grammar Girl and founder of Quick and Dirty Tips.  Mignon was a magazine and technical writer, and an entrepreneur.  Mignon has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University.

The podcast episode that I chose is called: Where do I use commas?  This episode has the next segments:

Commas: Are There Firm Rules or Just Guidelines?

In this segment the author talks about the different uses of the comma, and what makes them confusing.

Don’t Put a Comma between a Subject and Its Verb:

This segment explain why you should not put a Comma between a Subject and Its Verb

Pauses Do Not Equal Commas:

Here the author explain the myth of putting a comma everywhere we pause

Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Appositives:

Here she gives us an easy example to help us remember the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives.

Here is a link to the podcast: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/where-do-i-use-commas.aspx