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Chapter 6 -Interaction

Frequent / Supportive / Clarifying

Content Objective: To understand the importance of Student to Student Interaction in the classroom.To be aware of many ways students may be able to interact in your classroom

Language Objective: To speak German To walk-through two examples of classroom interaction activities

Objectives

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Heute Thema – Das Wetter

Alright. I know we don‘t exactly teach or lecture in a foreign language.

Hey…Wait a minute

In my class, I am teaching students how to write basic code. Sometimes it seems just as foreign as German.

What do we teach?

For Instance, I might say, Make sure your cortex is set to the correct platfrom type and have the potentiometer plugged into analog port 2. Today we are going to write Natural Language code from the Pseudocode your wrote yesterday.

Without a chance to talk to classmates and be able to ask clarifying questions, any of our classes might sound like a foreign language at times.

Truth is:

As students struggle with new vocabulary and subject matter, interaction with fellow students is imperative for understanding

Interaction!

Yet there is often little time for interaction as instructors often do a majority of the talking.

Time for a Lecture?

Source – Educational Review (1967)

So – Interacting is important. How do we do it?

How do we get kids to interact?

1. Find Your Match2. Group Response on a White Board3. Jigsaw what you Know (Classify / Describe)

4. Gallery Walk (View other student work)

5. Take a Stand (Agree / Disagree w/a Statement)

6. Frozen Moment (Re-enact a scene)

7. You are There (Interview a historical character)

8. Role Playing

Ways to promote Interaction

1. Find Your Match2. Dinner party

Let’s try 2 ways to Interact

Take a slip of paper from the bag and find your partner.

Please find your match

Find your matchSkipper and Gilligan

Shaggy and Scooby DooSonny and Cher

Batman and RobinBert and Ernie

Mork and MindySpongebob and Patrick

Barbie and KenLady and The TrampWallace and Gromit

Imagine you are going to have a dinner party and can invite any 4 musicians to your party.

1. Who would you invite and why?2. How would your seat them

around the table?3. What would they talk about?

Dinner party

Please remember to Interact!Thank You!