1) The teacher in the first video gives the students time to work together, which is student-centered. She then brings the class back together, making the class teacher-controlled again. The students had to work together to find the results and combined their answers to get a whole-class finding. I would expect these students to be motivated by the fact that they will be directly responsible for an answer (the teacher will call on them). In this example, the students would learn how to work together and deliver information to the teacher.
In the second video, it is completely teacher directed. Every action is dictated by the teacher. In this example, the students are motivated by the fear of reprimands from the teacher. They also, at this age, I believe, want to please the teacher. The way the students learn in this video is through teacher instruction completely.
I like your response, mainly because it's a completely different interpretation from my response. I didn't really see the second teacher as completely authoritarian, but after reading your response it changes my opinion on it a bit. The second teacher did let most of the students do their own work while she worked with the smaller group, but I agree that she still tried to control the entire class.
ReplyDeleteI like how you said that the students motivation is the fact that they have to find the answer themselves. I never thought of that as being a motivation but now that you pointed it out I see your perspective.
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