Service Learning | Intro to Education

My teacher has shown choice to her students countless times to her students. But not too much that they feel they can do whatever they want in the classroom. For example, when she just simply asks an open question that has multiple answers and gives the students a chance to be creative, within the limits. She asks, what words start with S? It gives them the chance to uses what they've learned and make something of it. Individually. Mrs. Paige does a good job of making her students feel loved and appreciated. She knows how to help them know they are smart. She is continually complimenting student's answers and work. There is a student in the class I observe that is having home problems. She recognizes that and understands there will be some acting out and other things. So she and I try our best to be a friend to him, to encourage and help him feel that he is smart and good. These kids have only been in school for 18 days yet Mrs. Paige knows every kid by name and their spot a...

The teachers that I have shadowed have all seemed to use the constructivism teaching method. I think that a lot of teachers today are using the constructivism method because our world needs more hands on ways to learn to keep our attention. For example, the teacher I was observing was teaching a lesson on batteries and the positives and negatives and so on. She asked her students what kind of problems batteries helped solve when invented. And then they were asked to plan how to develop their own "machine" that uses a battery and helps solve a real world problem. Just for an example, a light. A battery can be used to light an area in the dark, without needing to be hooked up to a wall for electricity. The students then learned from their own experience how a battery worked, how to set one up and how it started working.