week 6

What strategies does the teacher use to actively engage the students? How effective are these?

The teacher I have been shadowing does an incredible job at keeping the kids focused on what is being taught. Ways she actively engages the students are creating jingles for new words they are learning. She has fake money she has the students work with and lets them pretend to be adults and they have to accurately give the amount of money she has requested. She will have the kids do actions with certain activities she is doing to help them remember specific things that are important in that lesson.

I nanny one of the students in the class so I get to see her in the classroom as well as in the home. She is constantly singing the jingles she learns in class, at home. She always asks for our leftover change so she can count it. And she is always excited to tell me what she learned about at school.