It's really funny what kids notice. Sometimes, little things that I would never pick up on grab their attention so much more than obvious things. They notice
whether I wear glasses or contacts
whether I'm driving my dad's truck or my car
if a teacher has an iPhone or a droid
if one of the other kids has on the same pants he wore yesterday
when I get new dry erase markers for my board
when someone gets a new hair cut
and the list goes on...and on...and on.
Yet when I try to direct their attention to a specific passage in our history book that will be on their test they are all over the place! They can't focus on math problems or science questions or language arts sentences but they can pick up on the smallest change in our classroom.
I think the difference is that they are discovering the minute details themselves rather than being told them. We learn all about discovery learning in our methods classes and I think this is proof that it really is effective. I would love to use discovery lessons for everything I teach because the kids get so involved in them! Hopefully as I build my lesson plan library and get into the groove of planning and teaching, I will be able to develop many lessons that students will remember years down the road.
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