Thursday, March 26, 2015

Chapter 7: Teaching Difficult Academic Material

This chapter of Fires in the Bathroom, focused primarily on how to teach material to students in the way that's going to be most beneficial to them. The students in this chapter give many different examples of ways that they like learning new material and their favorite ways that teachers present information. There's also student insight into the best kinds of questions to ask students, in order to get them thinking and make them more "active learners."

My favorite part of this chapter was reading about the best kinds of questions to ask students. That's something that I have found myself struggling with the most, so being able to hear a few different students talk about questions that really made them think was really helpful for me to hear.  I know from experience some of my best teachers were the ones who asked us the hardest questions, because they really made you think and become more "active learners."

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