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FITB Ch. 10
One of the last pages of the last chapter gives us a great worksheet to use for students to learn outside of the classroom. Using this worksheet will help any student get a better understanding of any subject.
Personally I have not had a lot of teachers try to get us to learn outside of the classroom besides doing homework. The only time I can remember doing so is for a report on Dodge Vipers in 7th grade I called up car dealerships and talked to salesman who had actually driven one. I think it is always important for students to talk to experts in certain fields to get a deeper understanding of something that a usual textbook or article could never tell them. Besides, it is never a bad thing to just go out and expand your knowledge by talking to people.
Personally I have not had a lot of teachers try to get us to learn outside of the classroom besides doing homework. The only time I can remember doing so is for a report on Dodge Vipers in 7th grade I called up car dealerships and talked to salesman who had actually driven one. I think it is always important for students to talk to experts in certain fields to get a deeper understanding of something that a usual textbook or article could never tell them. Besides, it is never a bad thing to just go out and expand your knowledge by talking to people.
FITB Ch. 9
At some point in every teachers career they will have a classroom where things start to go wrong (usually this does not take too long). In this chapter on page 169 it gives you some recommendations if you do happen to lose control of the classroom.
This chapter will really help any teacher when they feel like giving up altogether on the class activity due to numerous different reasons. One thing that really stuck out out in this subsection was the idea that we as teachers should not feel afraid to apologize to a student. Another great idea listed in this chapter was the idea that in no way should we judge our teaching on how well we are liked by the student body. In all reality it seems that the teachers that students hate are the best teachers while on the other hand if a teacher is really liked it turns out they may not be the best teacher.
This chapter will really help any teacher when they feel like giving up altogether on the class activity due to numerous different reasons. One thing that really stuck out out in this subsection was the idea that we as teachers should not feel afraid to apologize to a student. Another great idea listed in this chapter was the idea that in no way should we judge our teaching on how well we are liked by the student body. In all reality it seems that the teachers that students hate are the best teachers while on the other hand if a teacher is really liked it turns out they may not be the best teacher.
FITB Ch. 8
Right at the beginning of this chapter is a great chart that lists every subject and then what English-language learners might talk about.
It is very interesting to see how we can connect where they are from and how much they understand about our culture to there own culture. The one I liked the best is from reading and writing where tehy might want to hear stories and legends that "everyone knows". I have always been interested in shared beliefs in different cultures. Not everyone knows that almost every culture has a bogeyman or tooth fairy. They just give them different names and change the attributes of them for each culture.
It is very interesting to see how we can connect where they are from and how much they understand about our culture to there own culture. The one I liked the best is from reading and writing where tehy might want to hear stories and legends that "everyone knows". I have always been interested in shared beliefs in different cultures. Not everyone knows that almost every culture has a bogeyman or tooth fairy. They just give them different names and change the attributes of them for each culture.
FITB Ch. 7
The most important part of this chapter was on page 139 where the students made a list on how they feel teachers could help them read difficult academic material. There are ten tips on the page and each deals with a slightly different approach to helping the kids understand the difficult material.
I am pretty sure that at some point everyone has had problems reading the words out of the book. We may be exceptional at reading but just may not be very good at reading new words out of the textbook. This proves more true in science and history classes where the words are long, difficult and make no sense. Just recently while under my mentor teacher we had the kids read aloud about the Middle East and each student had problems reading aloud some of the names and locations because they are different than our own culture's.
I am pretty sure that at some point everyone has had problems reading the words out of the book. We may be exceptional at reading but just may not be very good at reading new words out of the textbook. This proves more true in science and history classes where the words are long, difficult and make no sense. Just recently while under my mentor teacher we had the kids read aloud about the Middle East and each student had problems reading aloud some of the names and locations because they are different than our own culture's.
FITB Ch. 6
Probably the most important chapter in the book, we learn about motivation. While I thoroughly enjoyed this entire chapter it was hard to narrow down only one aspect that really hit me harder than the others. To me the most important part was what motivates kids.
In this little subsection of the chapter we learn what keeps kids motivated to stay in school and to do well in school. To me, this could be the most important aspect of teaching in high school. Keeping them motivated and making them actually want to be in school is the only way they are actually going to learn anything in your classroom. There is no doubt that I will use the lessons in this chapter in the real world.
In this little subsection of the chapter we learn what keeps kids motivated to stay in school and to do well in school. To me, this could be the most important aspect of teaching in high school. Keeping them motivated and making them actually want to be in school is the only way they are actually going to learn anything in your classroom. There is no doubt that I will use the lessons in this chapter in the real world.
FITB Ch. 5
What I really liked about this chapter was the idea of asking open ended questions to the class. By doing this the student is required to think a little more and to show evidence.
While sometimes questions asked to the class only require one short answer it is far better for the understanding of the subject that the teacher ask open ended questions to the entire class. Questions like: "Why do you think they did that?" or "How do you feel about this?" will work much better for understanding than asking what the exact answer is to something.
While sometimes questions asked to the class only require one short answer it is far better for the understanding of the subject that the teacher ask open ended questions to the entire class. Questions like: "Why do you think they did that?" or "How do you feel about this?" will work much better for understanding than asking what the exact answer is to something.
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