I also noticed that she would relate all of the day s lessons together. She would require the students to use prior knowledge. This was a very good teaching strategy because this would have the student s refreshing their memory on ideas that they have earlier talked about. There would be some textbook reading after the assignments were corrected. However, this only took about twenty minutes of the class time.
Students tend to lose concentration when reading out of the textbook.
One thing the teacher did to keep the students concentration was having each student read a paragraph. This would allow all of the students to do a little reading, which would keep their focus. I felt that this was a very good teaching strategy. Of the classes that I observed, there weren t any students that had any special needs, or at least there were none that were brought to my attention. However, there were still different levels of learning going on within the class.