Blog 6

What strategies does the teacher use to actively engage the students? How effective are these?

One strategy this teacher uses to engage the students is every hour they get up and part of the activity is a moving activity. All the students must stand up and move around. The activity they do is related to the lesson they are talking about. One example is today the teacher would ask what is 5+8 and they had to do jumping jacks to figure out what the correct answer was. She did about 4 or 5 of those and then moved on to the next activity. It was very effective. It let the students get their wiggles out and they were much more willing to listen to the next activity.

The other thing the teacher does is activities on the carpet. The students come sit down and participate in a discussion about something that they are learning about. Today they were talking about animal migration. The students were the main participators in the discussion and the teacher just guided it and made sure they stayed on the right track. This helped the students create new ideas and thoughts and got them involved so they weren't just sitting and listening.