There are four main kinds of status that seem to play a strong role in classroom encounters. Group work seems especially affected by the roles that various children seem to fill.
Expert status: This refers to the ability of children to make fine distinctions among individuals to determine who is the “expert” in the chosen field. [...]
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Van de Walle’s chapter on Problem Solving has been incredibly helpful in planning for my own teaching. He carefully deconstructs the methods used by effective teachers to and scaffolds beginning teachers well as they begin experimenting with lesson plans. Though the focus of the book is math, these methods could easily and effectively be applied [...]
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Today, my CT began to incorporate civics into our unit on communities. We discussed important leaders, and the fact that sometimes leaders made rules that you had to follow for the good of community. After an initial discussion, the children were sent to theirs desks with instructions to draw a picture of their [...]
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Today in Social Studies, we were lucky enough to have Ms. Nicki lead a discussion on different cultural customs throughout the world. She used a trade book to introduce children to various holidays and the children were amazed at how many different holidays there were. After the initial discussion on the differences in [...]
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