Chapter 7

When you start out every unit it is a good idea to give a pretest to see what students know and what you have to teach to them. Also make sure that the pretest is not a recorded grade because that will make students uneasy. Once you do this you can dive into your lessons as planned. As you get going you will encounter material that might be hard for students to do, so make it a fun way that they can learn it like in the form of a movie, a play, a comic, and so on. If this doesn’t work them think of other ways to present the material then just reading it from the text. When you read it from the text students get bored and loose interest. Break it down into a simpler form so that students can understand it. Make sure a person that has no knowledge of the field can solve it then you know that you have something good to work with. Also ask questions that push students to think, but be careful on how many you ask and how hard they are. If they are too hard them you might as well hang it up. The last thing that this chapter offers is the idea to incorporate as much technology into a classroom that you can. It will make it fun and students will learn a lot!