QR: Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Chapter ten is short but really has alt in it. Because it discusses how we can bring learning outside of the classroom into the classroom. I really love this chapter because it has given me, personally some ideas on how I can do this in my own class. Because from this I could bring people in who experience things in history, I mean it could be anyone, and that right there can bring learning alive for kids. It can get kids interested because they will be able to connect with the past and understand people from the past and people that actually went through the events being studied. I guess I never thought of it but I will look into bringing some outside or bring kids to outside sources during my class.

QR: Chapter 9

Chapter 9

This chapter deals with a lot of things that I have faced in my own life, thing like having to face the facts and maybe dropping out, or not knowing what to do to succeed in a class. Throughout this chapter I was asking myself why some of my teachers never asked some of those question, why they never did some of the things that were suggested in this chapter. If some of my teachers had I think that I would have done a lot better. Things like simply asking how your students feel about their grade and how they want to make it up to hw here they can succeed in the class. I guess the whole of this chapter is just making the point to teachers that if you want to become a good, or for that matter great teacher you kind of have to care. You have to care about what your students think or what they are thinking. You but if you don’t care because its one of “those” kids then at least pretend you care because you, if there’s nothing at home or these kids, could be the one thing in their life that turns everything around for them, because you at least pretend that you care.

QR: Chapter 8

Chapter 8

This chapter deals with students who are have English as there second language. What interests me about this chapter is not the fact that teaching these kids can be hard or what we need to do to help these kids learn the information. But what surprised me was the fact that getting to know these students is really important to them. That leaning who they are, where they come from, why they are here, and what there life is like is so important to these students. I don’t know, I guess I just thought that this small yet important part of the chapter was interesting, and was something good to point out. This chapter also suggests several things like lowering the level of English and also going the extra mile to make sure that these students understand the information and are learning at the same pace that the other students are learning at. Besides this there are so many other examples that I love and will put into my teaching if I ever come across this in the teaching career. But there really are way to many thing that I want to discusses to be able to put it all into a blog.

QR: Chapter 7

Chapter 7

This chapter, as the heading explains, talks about being able to teach hard material to students. Once again I like this chapter, well I guess I should say that I just really love the whole book. I love how this chapter outlines, not from a teachers view, or some doctor that sat in a chair for the last ten years, but its written from the view point of students, and it tells u what we need to know from them, it tells we as teachers need to do to help them understand hard material. They give several examples of helping students like linking material and trying several different approaches. I like how students suggest not just sticking with a textbook. I like this because I think it is hard to learn from a textbook. All these things and more I will use in my class because a lot of material is hard to understand. I really like the part about sticking to the text book, I know I mentioned it already but I love this part because I want students to get information from several resources, because hard material will come easier if they have several different view, so they can then form a view of there own about the information.

QR: Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Alright this chapter essentially tells us teacher not to remind kids why they are in school and not to tell them that school is important because kids are not stupid. It tells us that students know that school is important they know why they are there. I really like this because I think teachers forget that I think they forget that students, although being young, and inexperienced, are not stupid at all they have brains and opinions. The only other thing I really want to look at in this chapter is the passionate teacher part where students will be interested and like the material of they know that their teacher themselves passionate about the material, and I know for myself that this is true. When I got up to teach I tried to put in as much passion and as much energy as I possibly could into my teacher, and kids respond to this. The students that I talked to after said they actually like going to class when I teach and says that they are interested. This book is good at pointing out what really does work.

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Chapter 5

Alright chapter four is nice because I really like how right from the first page it outlines a few types of kids that there are in a class, and after reading them I can see them and pick out the kids who are those kids in my classes. This chapter emphizes that all of these kids are important to the classroom environment and that you really have to pay attention to them and their characteristics. This chapter then goes into how group work should be done. I love this because I really don’t understand yet how to make groups and actually make them work together so that everyone is happy. Chapter five says that you must make far groups so that not just one students is pulling the weight, one solution to this is roles, where each student has a role in the groups and must fulfill the requirements of that role. I think that a great idea, because if you don’t do something one person in a group really does do all of the work.

QR: Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Alright, once again I do like this chapter and why? Because it explains how to help kids want to learn. I really like how the students in fires tell us that we are suppose to help them they remind us that we need to teach material but we must help them understand that they can succeed at learning the material., according to the fires in the bathroom that is what students wan t from us. To be honest this is the best part in the chapter and really the only part I actually care about because I can connect with it. While at MBHS I had a really low level class and they thought they couldn’t learn, you know thy knew that they were the stupid kids, but I did some of the stuff that fires tells us to do and after doing it they actual pay attention. It seemed like they wanted to learn like they were really interested in the material, and I loved it. As far as chapter four goes it just has emphasized the desire to help kids understand that they can learn.