Comments for Teachers Summary #1

The teacher that I was assigned to comment on for the first time was Mrs. Kathy Cassidy. The first post that I commented on was one that explained what her ideas for her classroom setup were for this year. In this post, she stated that she was changing the setup of her classroom for many reasons. For instance, she wanted to provide a comfortable place for her students to curl up with a book, so she was going to be bringing in a love seat to add to her classroom. Her post also stated that she had changed the plans for her room many times and she still was not quite sure exactly what she was going to decide on yet. My favorite part of this post was the way that she came up with to view her different ideas without having to actually move the furniture and things around each time she changed her mind. The way she did this was by creating a paper model of her classroom. This way, she was able to move things around easily and she could still get the effect of each new plan that she came up with. I think that I will definitely be using her paper model idea the first time I decorate and set up my classroom because it seemed so convenient!

Mrs. Cassidy's second post that I commented on was about using videos in the classroom to help you to teach. In this post, she put short films up that showed teachers how to make movies and what advantages they could have in the classroom for your students. The post stated that she found videos to be very helpful in her teaching and she explained the reasons for this. Mrs. Cassidy says that children will love to watch the videos over and over again if they are featured in the film. It is clear from this post that the students enjoy seeing themselves on camera, and that gives them an incentive to want to see the video many times. By viewing the video regularly, the children are continuously being exposed to and learning about  the topic that was being covered when the film was made. Another one of Mrs. Cassidy's valid points made in this post was  that videos are a very effective way of teaching because children learn largely by visual senses.

I enjoyed reading both of these posts and agreed with the points that Mrs. Cassidy had in both of them. Both posts were very helpful to me and gave me new tools to use as a future teacher. When I commented on these posts, I made sure that I told Mrs. Cassidy how much I agreed with what she had said and that they were definitely going to help me when I become a teacher. In conclusion, I was very glad that I was able to gain knowledge about ways to set up my future classroom and also how to keep my students interested in the ways that they are learning what I teach. Reading these posts was incredibly helpful to me! These posts and my comments can be found on Mrs. Kathy Cassidy's blog.