Monday, September 7, 2009

Chapter 1: Knowing Students Well

What jumped out at me while reading was the whole idea of having a questionnaire to have students fill out on the first day of school. I feel that it is a great ice breaker for the student and the teacher. The student can say everything he or she want the professor to know as it is a pretty informal series of questions. The teacher can take this information and use it to affect how he or she will not only teach that student, but the class as a whole.

This aspect of the chapter jumped out at me because I think it's a good way to start off the year. The teacher is getting a lot of knowledge about his/her students just by having them fill out this simple questionnaire. They can then use it to gauge how they will go about presenting information to the classroom, as well as having a better understanding of their students and where they come from.

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  1. You write well. :-) No mechanics of writing errors and you followed all the directions except for what information goes in which paragraph. 3/4 I've re-written the directions and hope that it's clearer now what information goes in which paragraph:

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