Day 3 Afternoon

Describe your teaching.

Combinatorial is the only way I can describe my style. I try to use a variety of methods - lecture, demonstrations, labs, groups, hands on activities, field experiences, video, computer and anything else that I can find to engage and excite my students. I have found myself using WAY TOO MUCH lecture this past semester and not enjoying my teaching at all - and neither did my students! We teach in the block semester schedule with 4 classes periods of 90 minutes. We have worked hard this year on using the 10-10 or 20-20 strategy where we change activity every 10 or 20 minutes depending on the activity. THis has us doing short segments of lecture and interpsersing the activities, labs, etc. in short segment as a way of keeping student engagement high. I found this strategy difficult with my lower level students who have difficulty transitioning anyway - its great for the ADD who want to switch - but they have trouble settling back down into learn mode at each phase - this may be more of a classroom management problem but that is what frustrated me about this technique.

I wnat to work hard this summer on revamping my classes to be more combinatorial and more engaging.

Blog Addresses

Ben Bryant- benbryanthives
Ted Belles -teddybelleshifives
BenajminMills -bigboi
ROy Blemenfeld - bigboiroi111@aol.com
Augmon Price - augmonpricehifives
Sam Bartels - sambartelshifives