Chapter 5

Students like teachers to know them. This helps the teacher with figuring out how to deliver the material to the students in a way that will engage everyone. This chapter lists seven types of students that teachers will see in their classroom and describes them. Students who do not understand material sometimes do not bother to ask questions because they expect someone else to ask the question. A teacher should not give their students the feeling that questions are annoying or time consuming. This will make the students think that they are a nuisance. Students feel ignored sometimes because teachers will call on the same students for answers to questions. Anxiety is a reason that some students choose not to speak out or participate in class.
Although this chapter shows that students like to pick their own groups, I feel like this could potentially be a problem. I moved a lot while I was in high school, so I always hated group activities simply because I did not know anyone. When the teacher told us to pick groups it made me sad because it just showed myself and everyone that I did not know any of the other kids and had not made any friends. This actually drove me to tears as a freshman in high school. I think as a teacher I will find a way to allow students to pick groups, but will also find a way to accommodate for the students who were like me. I think I will ask the students to write down who they would like to work with on a piece of paper and if they have no preference they can write “no preference”. I will then set up the groups using these requests and will place the students who have no preference into a group. This way, there is no embarrassment or humiliation.