I have found an article that caught my interest on Twitter, by using the hashtag, #edchat. This article comes from the account @Elmagazine. This article is titled “Small Shifts in Teacher Talk Make a Big Difference.” This article caught my attention just by the title of it. When you are a teacher and you are trying to teach a new lesson to students it truly does help to make little changes for the students to be more excited about what they are learning. The article, it talks about how teachers plan out lessons in their head and have everything written down, but when it comes to actually teach the lesson in class things might not have seemed as exciting as you thought. I also think a good point that is talked about in the article is how you communicate with your students. Making little shifts in the way you deliver a message to your students make a big difference. As stated in the article, instead of saying to your students, “I have an exciting math activity planned for you today!” You can say, “You’re going to get to participate in an exciting math activity today.” When you think about it making minor changes in what you say to your students can make a huge change. By changing what you say as a teacher it can help the students to be more interested in the lesson and excited to learn. In the article, there Is a chart with several examples of what words you can change around for your students and look at things from their perspective. I think these examples are very useful and can help make a change in the classroom. Overall, I thought this article was very interesting and educational.
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