Wednesday, April 1, 2015

What strategies does the teacher use to actively engage the students? How effective are these?

The teacher I am working with has some very engaging activities. For example, they are studying World War 2 right now, to go along with that they are doing book groups using historical fiction based on that time period. They also have to create a two scene movie trailer which they will do together in class. Another engaging activity they had was during their science lesson today they went around the room looking through microscopes at microorganisms.

I love these ideas. The first because they get to use their creativity and talk about the experience with the students around them. The con is sometimes they can get off task or there is always that one kid who just won’t do the reading and tries to drag their group down with them. For the most part I think it is a positive experience, it’s effective in making the students real look at the material. The second one because it is very hands on, they even prep the dishes of organisms and have to find and identify them. It get them out their seats and it kept their attention well enough once they got going and could see them moving. 

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