Students learn in all sorts of different ways so it follows that students fail to learn for all sorts of reasons. As a teacher it is important to teach responsively (respond to student's needs) so that each student may overcome his/her various barriers to learning. This idea of teaching responsively does quite a lot to stress the importance of student-teacher relationships and how strong ones are needed in order to teach responsively. There are many different ways to accomplish this feet of responsive teaching, and they include teaching in multiple ways, attending to student interests and also through the use of clearly defined rubrics. This page can offer more advice on how to teach in a way that is responsive to students.
The general feelings about this chapter were enthusiastic, as it had a lot to teach us as prospective teachers. I believe we all made some connection with what we were reading, and were able to store away some of the scenarios and suggestions for future use. Some of the sentiments that were derived from the reading were that teachers must always have a plan b if something goes awry, and this chapter with its talk of being able to respond to a student's need by it bizarre or untimely definitely requires this ability. Also it was mentioned in reflections, that students are just as much in control of the lessons as teachers are because if they don't understand something it will cause a slight hitch in the rest of the lesson. To minimize this it is our job as teachers to do the best that we can to prevent students from getting lost in the material, ways to do this can be found at the following link. Another, and in my mind the most important aspect to remember is that learning happens with not to the student.
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Good use of the teaching link and the resources that it will provide. This will be a useful tool over the next few weeks as we are getting our feet wet in the classrooms and getting our focus to teaching.
The link for the Ennis William Cosby Foundation was really awesome. The tips on effective teaching seemed really helpful. Also, it was chalk full of information. Most importantly, it's a Bill Cosby sponsored website!
I really liked the link about helping struggling students do better. It is important to help students succeed, and this article has some good ideas. Thanks :)
Your first link has a lot of really good tips. After reading just a few I find myself thinking, "yeah, that's a really good idea!"
The first link you had looks great. There seems to be so much useful information just in the one page, without even clicking on any of the links.
The first link is very useful. There's a lot of great information, and I'm sure I will come back to this page several times throughout the semester. Awesome Job!
I enjoyed your first link. There are a lot of tips on how to act and react to situations, like keeping eye contact and etc. Great link, I am bookmarking it for sure!
Derek,
I like that you linked to an article. Sometimes it is nice to have simple links that are short and quick, but are very effective. An about.com article is perfect for that paragraph.
The ADD research is interesting to me because several members of my family were diagnosed with ADD while they were in school and its interesting to see how they are dealing with it now.
Derrik, I liked the first link that had good classroom teaching for all learners. I can really see myself using this website to help me learn all different teaching styles!
I love hellofriend.org. It looks like there are a lot of great ideas for helping students learn as much as possible.
I like the article because it talks about a large issue that is in schools
I really like the third link, about how to help the students. Coming from a student perspective, I wish many of my previous teachers had read articles like these and seen how to help me and my friends. I hope that in the future my generation of teachers use the resources avaibale, right at our finger tips, to help students.
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