As I started to read chapter three of the text, one of the essential topics that the author touched on was effective teachers provide room for spontaneity and time to explore questions and topics that are on the minds of students. I personally couldnt agree more, a great teacher in my opinion is not just teaching your students the material that is taught in a textbook or overhead but really getting the children excitied and engaged in their learning. One way of doing that is by allowing the student to ask questions that they need clearity on or question that they feel to be of importance. When students ask questions they feel apart of the classroom community and it inhances there learning because they will get the answer to whatever problem or issue that was of there concern.
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Do you think it is good for teachers to follow a script
Do you think teachers can effectively teach there students only using technology based learning material. Example, powerpoint etc.
Do you believe when teachers are making study plans should make room or develop time to mistakes and errors if they happen to arise, or do you believe teachers shouldnt be allowed to make errors.
I personally believe that teachers cant effectively teach there students using only technology based learning material. I know there are still students out there who need the one on one interaction as well as having some kind of instruction in their hands that they can feel and ask questions about. Not everyone learns best with technology and I think its important to remember and not forget about those who don't thrive on technology.
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As handy as technology can be in the classroom, something could go wrong with an electronic device and destroy the whole teaching lesson plan! So, I guess with technology it's always important to make room for errors and have a back-up plan.
Q: Do you think teachers can effectively teach there students only using technology based learning material. Example, powerpoint etc.
ReplyDeleteA: I feel that this questions has to be more specificto what age group you are refering to. I think that with the younger grades (Pre-K to 5th) it should be more interactive teaching and less of teaching only through technology. Students at that age are not fully able to sit at their desk or on the rug and digest slides of infromation from powerpoint (even with animation). With grades 6th to 12th grade, I feel that it would be the oppsite where it would be more technology teaching and less of interactive teaching. Therefore, different age group requires different tools and methods of teaching effectively.
I agree that there should be what one of my past professors would call "wiggle room" in the teaching curriculum. It is hard to accurately plan and predict the outcome of the class because every class is different as well as the individual students. It is hard to predict the pace of the students until well in the semester as you get to know them. Having space in the lesson planning for any activity to help aid the students, whether it would be to clarify, as you mentioned, to assess the students on whether they learned the content and to spend extra time on certain aspects of the lesson if the students request for it.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I am a big fan of power-point slides but I think that only works for lecture/older group learning.
I've learned from my own personal experience that the age old quote is true "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry". I agree with everything you said about why teachers need to leave room in their lessons for student questions and clarifying their understanding, but I think would also add that teachers need to be masters of improvisation. In my experience more often than not you do not get to eveything you were planning or wanting to teach. I've learned that no matter what you need to schedule at least 25% of your time for summary and questions from the students as a given no matter how far along your lesson is. You could have the best lesson in the world but if the students do not get it then it is completely useless.
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