Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Field Post 3

Is it right to truly assume the class you are teaching knows absolutely nothing?

In my previous blog post you read why I have mixed emotions but kind of lean more towards the answer of no, it is not right to assume that they know nothing.  The teacher I observed during our trip to Cleveland Heights I believe demonstrated the perfect way to handle this.

The class I observed was doing a science lab with starch and iodine.  This was a freshman science class and the teacher would just ask, "Okay, do you guys know where all the materials are at?" If they answer was no then she would point out where the materials were.  But if the answer was yes, she would move on and not waste her time and take time out of class to explain everything if the students already knew where everything was.

As a teacher if you assume your student know absolutely nothing and you explain a simple topic that the class knows all about, then you just wasted precious class time and everyone else's time that could have been spent on another topic that you could have explained if people know fewer about that specific topic.

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