I like how Hewitt moved around the classroom,
not just stayed at the black board. He shows a visual and physical demonstration
of a number line, and it was easy for students to follow and participate.
Moving around the classroom also helps students pay attention and stay focused.
I find Hewitt uses more verbal scaffolding, and not writing everything on the
board. I think this may be difficult to do in B.C because we have a very
diversity population and many students are ELL. I find writing things down and
drawing diagram help ELL student understand better. Hewitt also uses a lot of
repetition, which I think is very important in helping any students to
understand. He also pauses and allows a lot of wait time for students to think
and answer. I find giving long wait time very hard for me as a beginning teacher
and I hope to improve on wait time and time management in the classroom. It is
also surprising to me how well the whole class participated. I also hope to
engage the students and have everyone participate in the lesson like Hewitt.
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