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Today’s class time was spent taking a quiz. The role of a teacher is to help guide students along a path of learning. Teachers are supposed to help students to think in ways that they wouldn’t normally think and help them to grow intellectually and as a person. In the first half of the class period the class is entirely freshmen. In the second half of the class period there is one sophomore and the rest are freshmen. About half of the class actually cares about actually learning, the rest just want to get through the class. No specific management techniques stick out.

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The lesson was reviewing for a quiz. The students all were engaged because they had to respond verbally. The teacher expects that when she asks to put everything under their desks every student will comply. The teacher threatens a referral if a student misbehaves. This hardly ever happens though so it isn’t a very effective threat. The 100% strategy is used and when a student misbehaves the teacher calls them out on it immediately.

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The lesson today was practicing conjugation of different
verbs. The teacher monitors learning with tests and by asking questions and
having students answer. Students do work sheets, answer questions, and play
games. There is no differentiation between different students.

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The lesson today was practicing conjugation of different
verbs. The teacher monitors learning with tests and by asking questions and
having students answer. Students do work sheets, answer questions, and play
games. There is no differentiation between different students.

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Today’s class period was spent taking a test so there was no
lesson or differentiation. Teachers let students pick different projects.
Teachers also let students pick whether or not to work in a small group or a
large group or by themselves.
I can keep the students in mind, not just the lesson. The
lesson is worthless if the kids don’t retain it. So I’ll get to know my
students and teach accordingly to how they learn the best.

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The lesson today was reviewing for the test that the class
has tomorrow. The teacher differentiates by doing a different sort of lesson
everyday. Today for example was spent reviewing by playing jeopardy. They were
allowed to work in teams which helped the students to work together to
understand the material. The teacher first goes over the bell ringer and
culture fact everyday, then they review homework or passes back work sheets.
The lesson for the day follows and then she hands out homework right before the
bell rings. The teacher plans what day she wants to have the test by and the
quizzes and then goes through and picks what she wants too have them know by
each day. How can you plan out lessons for everyone? How can you plan it out so
that the students are challenged but don’t give up?

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The lesson today was reviewing question words and teaching
the students a song to help remember them. It was to the Gilligan’s Island
theme. I know from my classes that using songs in language classes helps the
students to understand and remember different concepts. The students are being
assessed today by the teacher asking questions and then either answering them
or working together to answer them. There’s about 10% of the class spent on
direct instruction and 89% on cooperative learning with the teacher asking
stuff and the students answering. There is no independent learning in class and
minimal discussion. The teacher’s very good at fixing misconceptions and
correcting them. There are no exit slips or anything like that ever.