Reflection 5

Last week we saw "chalk" the documentary, I thought how scary! It must be very hard to teach the first year when kids can see right through you when one doesn't have the right confidence. One of the teachers in the documentary that was teaching history, looked scared out of his pants in front of his students. He didn't have the right strategies to cope with such stress and the student took advantage of that. In times i felt horrified for teachers and at the same time humorous. One day I'll be teaching and will remember this documentary and laugh about it.

Chapter five explains basically how kids and teachers can use reading exercise for more interaction in schools for better results. It's pretty much an application in a simpler and quicker way to help your students engage in the work. Activities involving writing and or jotting or sketching to facilitate the teachers efforts and minimize his work. The book organizes the strategies in five categories :Showing kids how smart readers work, before activities, during, and after activities, and Learning vocabulary.

This chapter cover material in chapter 2 with application. These strategies involve kids to visualize, connect, and monitor their understanding. I thought that it is every important in getting the student to focus and get them exited about the reading in order to start developing ideas. I remember my teacher's strategies work for me because them would introduce one strategy at a time and have it repeated. Lots of modeling was involved and quite frankly the best way of teaching it especially in band. Moving around and involving the class was very motivating and they seemed very engaging with us. Everyone would listen to exactly how he wanted without any confrontation.

I really like the part of the chapter that had outline every strategy with great facility. Brainstorming and Clustering was one strategy all my creative writting teachers would always use. This strategy is very involving and students get challenged continually. Many of these strategies are not ideal to use in a music reahearsal in band but, many of these strategies can be modified and tranlated to music exercises. RAFT on page 134, can be modified and use in music context. Students need to know the importance of style and character traits of a piece of music and this strategy can help to perform better.