1- Describe how the teacher's questioning and the manner in which student responses are handled, contribute or do not contribute to a positive classroom.
The teacher is asking questions to the students to try and get them on the right track and to see how much of the information they are understanding. I think it definitely contributes to the class because the students are trying to answer her questions. It seems like the students wanted to know more information about what they are learning. I think the teacher asking the questions is a positive way to help the students when they are learning new information.
2- What techniques does the teacher use to determine whether students have learned the material you are teaching?
The teacher in the video just walks around and looks at what her students are doing and why they decided to do that. She is making sure that each table is doing the right thing and observing where the students are at. She wanted the students to make the realization that if they change a letter to another number that it will also be chaning the variable.
3- Describe the primary task in this lesson and identify the mathematical skills and concepts that this task is designed to develop.
The task in this lesson was for the students to create a variable machine where they could create a word that was worth the highest amount of points or the lowest amount of points. The were also using addition and subtraction when they were figuring out how much the word was worth.
Over all, I felt that this video was helpful to me as a future teacher. I will have to be able to use the different approaches that this teacher did like observations and questioning. The students seemed very responsive to this lesson and I think that was a valuable lesson because they had to make connections between the letters and the numbers. I thought this was an interesting way to teach a math lesson and will have to use it when I'm teaching math in the future.
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