Chapter 9

Michelle Webb

Knowing where your students are at the beginning of a unit is very helpful so that you know what you need to teach them.  The book called these beginning places “anchors”. “Anchors” are the knowledge of which the student already has a good grasp. A common way for teachers to establish anchors for their students is to do a KWL chart. Once they have finished the unit students always need to review what they have learned. Ways to do this include interviews with the students and presentations the students can give to the rest of the class. Concepts in this chapter relate to what I am doing in the gardening group because as we set us our website we are using all different kinds of ways to present knowledge to our students. These can help us in the future when we have our own classes because we will know how to take these different ways of presenting information and delivering it to our students who might learn better from these techniques.