reflection Two
...dance to the student to achieve their goal. Some methods given in the book are to arouse curiosity, which causes students to ask questions. Another method is creating story impressions, which allows the student to make predictions of what will happen in the reading. This also introduces the text to the students in a different way. Other examples include guided imagery, creating a problem the students have to solve relating to the text matter, and creating an anticipation guide to see how much the students already know and give them a preview of the upcoming reading. There are two major ideas I feel that I can implement in my daily teaching. The first one is creating a story impression. Since history is my field of study this would be useful I feel. As the book suggests, I would give the students a series of events that happened with a particular subject matter and have them fill in the story using the facts provided by me. After this is done and the reading is done I would go back over the students predictions with them and compare them with the actual real story. This would arouse interest in the student to read the material to see if their predictions were close to the real story. The second tool I feel would be helpful is creating a problem situation for the students to solve. I would tell the students to place themselves in a person’s shoes from the past. If the class were studying about the civil war, ...