Current Event Interview

Hello all, this week’s blog is on the current event interview. The current event I choose to present to my teacher was about clickers in the classroom. A link for the article is here http://nyti.ms/cGxN2v. Although my questions for her were based on this article I chose to also include how she felt on technology in the classroom in general. Her immediate response to clickers was she would love to have them in her classroom. She could see the benefit in how they could help keep her students accountable and at the same time she could see where they were with the material.  She believes that technologies like these could help students and teachers alike.

It was cool to see a teacher’s response to a current event such as this. I think with more and more teachers feeling technology betters their classroom, we could see a change to even more technologies like this. It will be neat to see where we go as a culture with teaching and technology.  

Questions Observation

This week’s blog is on questions observation. This past week’s class involved more one on one time with the students. We helped them correct their writings. I would say that this week we observed most of questions posed by the teacher during their PE class. In this class setting the teacher would set the directions for the game and then have the students say answers to questions on the game he just described. He would ask things like, how do I carry my bowling pin? And the students would answer with two hands. I thought this was a nice way for the students to learn the directions and then in a way, repeat them so that they were ready to play the game. A question that was posed by a student was where should I place my bowling pin? The answer was inside of the designated playing area. So the main area of focus for questions on the student side was how they should play. While on the teacher side it was questions that involved thinking as to try and help the students remember the rules.