Role Shift During Sessions
During some of the sessions, we will put students in groups that will help their
learning. This often means older students with younger students to not only help
them as they are doing the hands-on activities but also to lead them in demonstrating
how they should be acting and what they should be doing. I rarely watch the screen
as I watch all the students to see who might need more help or who needs to sit
closer to me or another teacher to help their learning. I find that it rarely takes more
than a simple verbal refocusing on the session for the student to return to the
direction in which they need to be going.
My role shifts from the one leading the discussion to being a bit of a bystander,
purposely, which puts the interaction with the discussions and activities more on the
students' shoulders. This doesn't mean I tune out the presentation. If anything my
concentration is higher because I am constantly listening to the presenter,
synthesizing the information and assisting the students in whatever their needs might
be from rewording the information to using examples that might be helpful.
C o n n e c t e d N o r t h i n O u r C l a s s r o o m
Cody Prusky - Connected North in Our Classroom
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