chapter 6

Abstract

This chapter was all about how to teach and be responsible in and for your classroom. In this chapter we see the book pointing out that there are components of a classroom that can be manipulated to improve the effectiveness and efficiency in the classroom. Some of these components were space resources, student grouping, learning strategies, and more. Another main point that this chapter covers is learning to cluster the learning needs of learners so as not to become overwhelmed by student difficulties. The book says that it is recommended to consolidate all these problems by identifying key patterns in students issue. This chapter also covers flexible teaching in the classroom, so that students can feel comfortable, and so that these students will be more comfortable with there work and material.

Reflection

When we all read this chapter it seems that everyone in my group had the problem of not understanding a lot of the material because of the way the book writes it, and we also all agreed that the book was not concrete enough in this chapter. We all felt however that the part in the chapter about clustering was really helpful. The biggest reasons why I think we all felt this is because were a little overwhelmed with the fact that we would have to individualize each student. If we could in a classroom of 30 students then that would be the best thing, but nothing would ever get done. So the clustering I think was really helpful in the fact that we can give these students individual attention but we can get rid of some of the stress that goes along with that part of the classroom. Lastly, we all felt that being flexible was also a key element in the classroom because with the student of today we have to be flexible or they will not learn the information. Being flexible also will be able to give us a much happier classroom environment where student feel comfortable with the work, and also the amount of work.

Matthew Colby