Chapter #7 Teaching Difficult Academic Material

This chapter discusses how to get students learning and thinking. The chapter talks about pre-assessing, linking material, and trying different approaches to get a class started. To get students thinking use open-ended questions and ask what the students assume something means (like the word ghetto). This chapter also talks about what is affective learning/ teaching methods for different subjects. Lastly the chapter makes it clear that it is alright for a teacher to show that they might not know something.

I think that it is important that a teacher shows that they might not know something. I feel like it might connect the students with the teacher because they are both learning something. It will also show the students that the teacher is not perfect and not better than them. No one can know everything about a subject. I also feel that if a teacher can not answer a question that both the student and teacher should look up the answers and come back and share the answer with the class. I believe that this will allow the students to learn the answer themselves because the teacher is also looking for the answer it will make the student feel less like it was busy work.