concept attainment model

     I thought this was a really cool idea! I like how we were able to look at object, and make our own decisions on what we thought were key elements of the topic. By doing so I think a teacher could easily see the step and the way that a student/child would go through the process and gather information. If a teacher put a lot of thought into this as well, this could be a key way to look at pre-assessment long with understand what terms, vocab, and other abstract ideas a student would be familiar with.
     Also I like how the teacher can push/glide the students into their thinking and let them make their own connects and they feel more organic, and natural instead of them being told and shown instead of them constructing their own ideas.

    For my "future" class I would really have to think about this. I know it can be done, but with the day to day direct instruction I think it would be hard for students to switch their minds from that to this type of active. It would be refreshing, like jumping into a clear lake in the upper woods of "that place up north" for you buckeye fans. But I would definitely use this in a geometry class, talking about the property of polygons vs other geometry shapes. 

I think this would be neat thing to use, to reiterate, a wake up call to "not-very-fun-sit-still-and-listen-to-me-ramble-on-about-math" and let the students think and make decisions for them selves.

Graffiti style or Jigsaw style of Cooperative Learning in my own classroom

I think I could use both styles, I would use each for a different lesson. For the graffiti style I think I would use it more for a def. or a theorems. That each group could post their ideas about the lesson/ come up with their own def. and then we could summarize it. I find that this could be used also for solving problem, and many other types.

For the Jigsaw I have done this type of lesson before, but for math I would have to think outside the box a little bit. If it was for sometype of job/career then I think it would be easy that the groups could share and then pair up after.

Overall I think that these are both great ideas, I like the graffiti idea better, and plan on using it more in the future than the jigsaw.