Wednesday, December 10, 2014


Field Blog Post #6

Mr. Looman
Government Block 7
Mayfield High School

When I entered Mr. Looman's block 7 class it was huge! There were 28 students. It was difficult for him to keep control because there were so many conversations going on at once. I started watching the students talk, I am not even kidding I looked at there were 7 different conversations going on not including what Mr. Looman was teaching. He had to raise his voice to get the classes attention.
He told me that this class was very talkative. He decided to print out notes with some blanks to go through the lesson faster. When trying to emphasize a point he pulled up a video about the certain topic. For the class that day it was about the Bill of Rights.
He went through each section then would give them real life examples, and ask the students if it was legal. An example he used was if they wanted to protest the Mayfield school district could they stand on the sidewalk off the high school property? All the students answered yes. When the were wrong, the reason they were wrong was because Since Mayfield High School is a public school anywhere people pay for the school is part of the school. The only was they could protest anything about the High school they would have to be outside of Mayfield city. I thought that is a great way to teach. One he described how it was against the Bill of Rights and it was a good lesson for the students. Also the one thing I love about Government is that it teaches the students so much. He used the example that an office needs a warrant to search anything that is yours. Majority of the students did not know that. That is something that could keep some students out of trouble if they are ever doing anything wrong. 

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