Week 5 Final Assignment

Discuss a time when a teacher made the lesson more interesting with their body language and/or reached out to you by praising you as an individual. Explain how that made you feel and describe what similar teaching strategies you will use in the future.

It has been so long ago since I attended school that I really had to think about this question. I do remember though my sixth grade

Math teacher, her name was Mrs. Ellison. She was so funny and always dancing in front of the classroom as she would teach. She

also had a way of singing what she was teaching which made it more fun. We could remember the songs as she was teaching

Math it really stuck in my head. I have even shared this with my children. Anytime a teacher makes things fun in the classroom the

children can remember easier. I guess the thing that sticks in my mind the most is she always made things fun helping us to

remember things in the most positive way. One example is when she was teaching to divide decimals, when we had to carry over a

zero she would always refer to that as bringing in super zero and decimal dude. Another example of her teaching was when she

was trying to show us how to use proportions she called that the butterfly method. We had to circle the two fractions in a butterfly

shape then she would add eyes and antennas, the class would also laugh at her because she was not a very good artist.

Mrs. Ellison always seemed to use my work in front of the class because she always liked how neat I kept my papers. Of course that

made me feel extra special being in the sixth grade. I was very proud of her setting me as an example which taught me that children

love to be recognized. If I ever have the honor of having my own classroom I will use these methods in my teaching. The more you

involve your students and praise them the better chance they are of remembering that in years to come.