C4Ta #4

The first blog post I read for this assignment was Mrs. Hadley's Almost Boring! She talks about how towards the end of the year when her class talks about changes in Europe, she gets her students to write diary posts. The first post is before the Black Plague hit and the second after it passed. When it comes time for this assignment she lets the students do it how they want and let them take over. She calls herself a 'resource' when it comes time for the students to write the posts. Since it is the end of the year, the students are able to do this assignment on their own and they only asked her to proofread things to make sure they were doing correct. It is great that the students are able to do an assignment on their own and able to do it correctly. I think it is a great way to see how much the students learned over the course of the school year.

The second blog post that I read for this assignment was Mrs. Hadley's Just Laugh. In her blog post she talks about how it was great coming back to school from a break and seeing her kids. The second day after coming back the students were not serious about an activity that Mrs. Hadley had planned for them. Before the break the class was talking about the empire of Mali in West Africa. The students were acting silly because while reading they would mispronounce words that foreign to them. She had wanted the students to take the activity serious but did not want to be the grouchy teacher. She then decided to help the students pronounce the words correctly and then the students helped other groups that were mispronouncing the words as well. I think she handled the situation very well. At times you may want to just tell the students to be serious and to act right, but sometimes you just have to put a smile on your face and handle situations different than how you would want to. At the end of the day it is better that a teacher does not fuss at the students. The students will still  have an interest in what they are learning and have fun with  it.