Field Blog Post #8

Mr. Stoffl

Freshman Algebra
NDCL High School


He started the class with a prayer asking any of the students if they had any intentions. He then went through a quick review of what last class was about. He then gave a quick quiz about the material from the previous class. If the students did not understand the information that was given the first time he would go through it again and explain it more in depth. Sometimes he even did an example. It seemed to help the students big time.
There was a certain situation where he called on a student to try a problem. The student said I have no idea how to do this I'm going to get this wrong. He responded right away saying "just take a chance on it." The student ended up getting the problem right. He then told the class afterwards to always take a chance. Even if you get it wrong it is okay nobody is perfect we will get something wrong throughout our lives. Then he made a joke that made the whole class laugh saying "except for myself of course." It was a great job of him building the classes confidence.
When Mr. Stoffl started a new topic he would go through the information a couple of times to make sure everyone understood what was going on. It seemed that the students were understanding the information very well. Mr. Stoffl had a great student-teacher relationship, they all liked him a lot and some stayed after to talk with him.