C4T #2

My comments for teachers post this time was on Joe Bower. He is a teacher in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. His first post was about teaching a child that struggles with math to add to ten. He offered this young boy a chance to play a game but it was a math game. At first he was hesitant but gave it a shot. His first time playing he was shooting the numbered balls wildly across the screen, so the teacher stopped him and helped him right out all the numbers that added up to 10. This was the aha moment that all educators search for. As he was writing the numbers out he realized that no matter the order he wrote the numbers they still added up to 10. After this the young boy loved playing the game and was upset when he had to quit playing to go to lunch.

The second post that I commented on was about teachers that expect their students to think only one way. I think this is the biggest problem with schooling today. It seems like in society and schools it is only acceptable to think in only one way and if you don't understand it then you are just out of luck. Teachers have to realize that not all students think the same and not all students are going to understand a topic the first go around. This issue that teachers face is what makes their job so important. They must learn to adapt to their students and figure out a way to teach the information so that all the students understand it in their own special way.