EDU 307 Participate Task Workshop Methods

I liked how the first video asked the students to fill in her questions in order to initiate the student’s thinking. The teacher uses questions that initiate the thought processes of her students. She does not just give the answer out which would lead to no learning opportunity. I also liked how the teacher would ask her class to repeat what she said. I believe this emphasizes the learning for students because it reminds them what tasks they are focusing on. This also shows the children what is most important. In other videos, I like how teachers gave background information to the literary pieces to introduce the text to the class. A strategy I saw was how a teacher told the class to “turn and talk” to a partner to discuss what a definition of a poetic term was. Something I saw that I did not like was how the teacher was constantly just talking directly at the kids. I do not believe this was effective because it did not allow for the students to use their thinking processes. They were mostly just listening to the teacher and not displaying an understanding of the material. I liked how in another video a teacher was interactive with the book when she was reading it. She asked the students questions such as “Have you felt that way too?” I believe this helps the students develop an understanding of the true emotions in the book. This can allow for them to relate to the characters and gather an awareness of the true meanings in the story.