In my field work I have had many opportunities to work with the children in small groups. Right now during the time I am there the kids are working on memorizing and performing plays. I am able to get with each group individually and talk to them about things that they could do to improve their play. We talk about how to stand on the stage so the audience can always see them and not have to look at their backs. We also talk about saying their lines slowly and clearly. A lot of the kids tend to say their lines super fast and end up mumbling all the words together and then it is hard to understand them. It has been fun to work with the students and see what kinds of critiques they are able to come up with for their groups before I have to give them the ones i came up with.
I have also had the opportunity to work with a few students one on one. After we finish working on the student's plays, they pull out a vocabulary assignment. In this assignment they are to read the story and then answer questions about the story and also look up some of the harder words so they can learn what they mean. A lot of the kids end up working together on this assignment. I have found it interesting though that as each student brings their papers up to me only some of them will have the correct answers and spelling for their questions and words. One student came up to me like 3 times before he finally said "I really dont get this" instead of just walking back off to have his friends help him more. We sat down and went through the questions and I asked him about them and had him answer the questions orally. He was able to answer most all of the questions independently when he was given the chance to do it this way. Once he answered the questions correctly then I would help him to figure out how the best way to word the answer on his paper would be. I think it is very important to remember that not all kids learn in the same ways and we need to be understanding and accommodating to that with all of our students. The end goal is that the students succeed, not that the teachers have an easy life.
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