Chapter seven covered something that most of us don’t really think about, covering hard material. I feel like when you’re trying to teach students something that is especially hard the kids that struggle with the normal things are going to shut down completely. The thing that popped out at me was the list of ways the students suggested teachers go about teaching harder material.
Two of the five things would not have occurred to me when thinking about teaching hard material. These two things were “Find out what we know already”, and “Make connections among the things we’re already learning.” I think it would be extremely helpful if I as a teacher gave a quick quiz, that didn’t count towards their grades, before I began a new section on say grammar. This quiz would show me where all of my students were in this area, where I need to start and what I’m going to have to spend extra time on. The other part, make connections to what they’re learning, would help solidify whatever it is that I’m teaching because of the fact that it is somehow related to other things besides just my class.
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