C4T Summary Post #4

For our final C4T assignment, I was given Ms. Hadley Ferguson, who keeps up with the blog Middle School Matrix.

The first post I commented on was quite interesting. She went to ASCD conference session titled,  “Brain Based Strategies to Redesign your Classroom." The message in the session was that students learned at different times of the day. An experiment led to see that after 20 minutes, no matter the task, students began to lose interest. With these results, the teacher introduced new material at three different times. A week later she gave an ungraded quiz and the students had a 60 percent retention rate. These are remarkable numbers and they certainly will contribute to how my classes are organized.

The second post seemed to be some late school year motivation. She commented on how this time of the year it is quite easy to lose focus for both the students and teachers. End of the year distractions and spring fever can make students and teachers give on goals. Especially, when the goals do not seem to be in reach with so little time in the year left, but as teachers it is our duty to keep students motivated in reaching goals.