Hi everyone!!!!
This is mainly for elmentary school teachers...
Many of you may have already heard of this new trend in the classrooms today and might have already seen video clips, but I wanted to post the video of "power teaching" and see what everyone's opinion is...is it positive or negative?
Christina,
ReplyDeleteJust so you know... I showed this video to my SE-370 class today. It created an interesting discussion on the positives and negatives of this teaching style.
One point that a student made was that the manner of teaching touched the different learning styles. Students were moving and speaking, which is a wonderful addition to any lesson.
However, can this teacher teach this way ALL DAY?
Just curious...
I must say that I understand the kinestetic value behind this, however the absolute noise level and retention is to be questioned. I know in some schools administrators would be very concerned with the noise levels coming from that classroom. Another issue to ponder is: If this is done all day with all subjects does it beconme ineffective after a while. Do students really digest the info or does it become rote?
ReplyDeleteOk – that was definitely an interesting video and an interesting teaching style.
ReplyDeleteI put myself back to a being a 6th grader and with my learning style I would have been so confused with the level of noise, there is no way I would have been able to concentrate and actually learn; my brain would have jumped from one thing to the next and I would have not remembered anything.
The thing I did like was having the hand gestures to relate to the different topics being a visual learner it might help to see and do the movements when trying to go back and remember the lesson.
Everything seemed to fast pace, maybe if the teacher went a little bit slower it would have worked for me but I feel like it would be too overwhelming.
And what about the poor kid in the front row who didn’t have a partner, aren’t you supposed to be “teaching your neighbor”?