My Reflection On The Ten Issues Of Education

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As a class we went over what we observed at Fairview elementary. As everyone spoke of their classrooms and the teachers that they observed there was a wide variety of experiences. They ranged from “this teach was just no good, and didn’t seem to care about her student at all!” all the way to, “Well my teacher was fantastic and did a good job of maintaining order and the kids seem very interested in what the teacher was teaching”. I shared my experience and how it was a positive one and I learned a lot about creating a good lesson plan and also the logistics of maintaining class order.

the class discussion we had impacted me in a pathological way. As we were discussing the different teachers and their techniques I decided that I want …show more content…

In class on Wednesday we participated in something called a sarcastic seminar. The class was asked to prepare for it by getting two outside sources regarding one of the top ten issues in North Carolina’s school system and them discuss the information we found about that topic in our secondary source. Having never heard of or participated in a Socratic seminar, it was a great learning experience.

During the Socratic Seminar I found out that a Socratic seminar is something you can use when teaching children to get them involved and engaged in learning, or a topic. I loved how even if you were not the people engaging in the conversation at that moment were still be able to be apart of the conversation going on.

I hope that I can use this in the class room as a way to demonstrate to kid how to have discuss a topic with many people being involved. I found that a Socratic seminar is a good example how to properly communicate and address an issue. Having students participate in the type of setting a Socratic seminar gives is a good way to teach children how to solve conflict as well as learn about other people

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