Student Teaching Reflection 9

This week, my mentor teacher showed several videos to her classes, and I got to see how she utilizes video as a tool for her teaching. One thing that I thought was very productive was that she had students in one class complete several questions after watching the video to make sure they got something out of it. This forced students to pay attention to the information in the video as well as reflect on it afterward. Some videos that she showed this week were mostly informative, while others were very engaging as well. It was easy to see that students got more out of the more engaging videos, and I noticed that the less interesting videos were only shown in her advanced classes. This makes sense, because these classes are mainly Seniors who have higher expectations and are preparing for college. A video like that would not be productive in her lower level classes, because these students are much less intrinsically motivated by the information and need a little extra help engaging.