Edited by author 01-28-2003 02:06 AM
I think that this is a great example of a challenge teachers must face everyday; a student is struggling, and the teacher must motivate and encourage them to think without telling them what to do. I think the questions he (the teacher) chose were very thought provoking and at the same time left a wide variety of possible answers open. The boy was then forced to come up with an alternative for not having a wasp and a reasoning behind why this would work. I liked how all of the kids were listening carefully to what the teacher said, and were able to figure it out on their own. Linda Darling gave a great explanation of how to handle the situation based upon the duties of the teacher.
As a student I was faced with challenges and they were not always presented to me in such a way that I was able to truly learn from, like in the video. As a teacher, I would like to give my students this kind of enviorment, a sort of group learning situation. The students in the video seemed much more enthusiastic about solving the problem than a student sitting by themself trying to figure it out.