Students were significantly more engaged with this lesson compared to reading, then answering questions. i used you tube videos and a flocabulary video and they reacted to each one, sometimes with laughter, which was the point, then sometimes with groans, typical of third graders, but they watched them all. I did teach controlled, so they could watch as they and their peers answered the questions, first with names showing then without names. It is a small group and that worked well.Each student needed to answer because if they did not, we waited for them.
I do believe student levels of understanding increased because as I walked around the room, I could help struggling students, or read directions if they were making a mistake, so that they could correct their work as we went along.
The benefit was that the students were learning as they went along and didn't have to wait to get a graded paper from me, which they probably would have just recycled! They remained engaged the whole time.
I do believe student levels of understanding increased because as I walked around the room, I could help struggling students, or read directions if they were making a mistake, so that they could correct their work as we went along.
The benefit was that the students were learning as they went along and didn't have to wait to get a graded paper from me, which they probably would have just recycled! They remained engaged the whole time.