Field Blog # 2

Mrs. Kelm Trig class



I was at NDCL for two class periods, this was the second class I attended. This was a different class then her stats class. This was a more intelligent group of students. The beginning of class they went through the homework assignment. She assigned 22 problems because she had 22 students. She told me that the students answer but not everyone will get involved. She had popsicle sticks with each students name on it and called on whoevers name came up. At first I did not like it for putting the student on the spot, but then I realized it was an affective way of getting the students involved. If the student struggled with the problem then she would walk the students through the problem. One time a student said "How do you not know how to do this problem." She answered very quickly defending her student saying it is okay that they do not know they answer. One great quality of defending her students so quickly showed the kind of person she really is which is awesome. She admitted her mistakes when they arose. She was doing a problem on the white board and at the end of the problem she was told that it was the wrong problem. She said something along the lines of " I'm sorry I messed up, let's do the other problem." It showed that everyone makes mistakes and it is not the end of the world or a big deal at all. The one thing she did great was challenging the students. She was able to push the students far and make them have to think about each problem. She wanted to make sure that they were difficult questions that they had to think about. She also does a lot of examples to drill it into the students brains, so they understand each section of work.