As a student growing up in other teachers classes I often struggle because I could not connect with what was being taught in the classroom. My soul would cry out teach me. Most time than not the same old pattern would continue where the teacher would tell me this or that and would rarely teach me. However, somehow I made it. It took me sitting in Mrs. Amy Fineran Literature Class in tenth grade see the following quote, “Give a man a fish he will eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he will eat for a life time.” I didn’t just see the quote be she told me simply, “That if I tell you everything you want to know you will never learn what you want to know, however, it if teach you to learn or research what you want you will never forget”. This was when I first got a peek at the strategy that I have tried to incorporate into my class since the first day I walked into my own class to be the teacher of record. “During this process I looked back at the method or strategies that helped me learned to most and was the most beneficial to me as a student in school.” (Oleson, A., & Hora, M. (2014).
I have selected to use the Show & Tell Method in this Lesson of show heat transfer through convection, conduction and radiation. This method is a simple method where students show and tell you about what they have learned. It is an easy method for me to see very quickly if my students has grasp what I taught on a particle subject or content matter. Also it is a method where I can assess their knowledge. Furthermore, I can interject the knowledge into this method that is lacking.
The lesson that I taught in the observation that I observed was Convection, Conduction, and radiation. The first part of the lesson students had to write the word, the definition, and draw a picture that represent convection, conduction, and radiation. We then then discuss the term in great details. However, then the students was put in groups of threes. Each group had to tell and demonstrate one of the ways of show heat being transferred.
Convection: (Group one used a hot plate, a sauce pan, and water to demonstrate and tell us about convection.)
Conduction: (Group two used a cup of hot coffee, a metal spoon that show how hot the spoon got as it sat in the hot coffee transferred to the student hand.)
Radiation: (Group three used the hot plate and their hand to show how the heat from the hot plate heats up your hand.)
As I reflect back on this teaching experience of using the show and tell method for the Heat Transferring Lesson was one of the best experience in my teaching career. As I think out how much our students are students who like more hands of experience in class or wanting the class to come alive and not be so boring. Students was excited and they showed what they had learned in class. When I think of the learning styles of my students I believe the Show and Tell method addresses every learning style. It addressed met the needs of the students who have to used their hands. It addressed and met the need of the students who are visual. It also addressed and met the needs of the students who auditory. Also it show that my students were at level three and four of Bloom Taxonomy.
Finally, as I reflect over the Show and Tell Method I think in the future I will incorporate other methods such as the four corners Mrs. Kim Young share in the lesson that I observed from her. The way I would incorporate this method is I would place a car beside each letter. Then I would allow the students to decide which type of car they would like to be. After they select it they would go to that corner and share their thoughts using that car mindset. For example, dirty truck (whatever come to mind) or Cadillac, (very suffocated thoughts). This would give the students more ownership up front and the lesson would be more student-centered at the beginning of the lesson very teacher-center.
