Journal 3 week 4

Students name: Amani Alshehhi H00271720

date: 6 9 Nov

How to know what a student knows

Understanding students is very important to teaching. In order

to plan how to teach your students or ways to present a subject
in an interesting manner. Teachers have to know students
abilities and what they know and they need to learn. Before I
teach grade 1 I start to ask my MST about students abilities and
who wants more care in learning. When I start teaching them I
start to take some information about what they know before. I
just talk to the students. The purpose of this would be to open

the lines of communication between you and the students for

example: the lesson was about addition numbers, so I ask them
who know the sign of the addition. I saw that high ability
students know the sign and they wrote it on the board. I know
what students know through asking them in class some
questions and listen to their answer. Also, I always used my IPad
to review their information. They like play on IPad and that
motivate them to present their information in it. I show them a
game which is a learning game and most of them participate to
play. Another thing that help me to know what they know, I
give them a paper which have some question about number. I
gave them 5 minutes to answer the question in the end I read
their answer to know who have an information more than
others.
In my opinion, as a teacher I think it is important to establish a
comfortable verbal rapport with the students so they feel
comfortable expressing their concerns to me as well as
participate in class.