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{{activity|Video watching}} Watch the two clips below, showing | {{activity|Video watching}} Watch the two clips below, showing | ||
# how the teacher, Noxolo, tries to find out what students know about polygons '''prior''' to her teaching the topic (see first video) and | # how the teacher, Noxolo, tries to find out what students know about polygons '''prior''' to her teaching the topic (see first video) and | ||
# Noxolo responding to the students '''after''' she observes them working in groups on | # Noxolo responding to the students '''after''' she observes them working in groups on polyhedra (see second video). | ||
Before you watch the clips, read the questions below (in your own time), and consider them as you are watching the clips: | Before you watch the clips, read the questions below (in your own time), and consider them as you are watching the clips: | ||
* Why do you think Noxolo has made the effort to ask so many questions to the whole class and individual students? | * Why do you think Noxolo has made the effort to ask so many questions to the whole class and individual students? | ||
* Do you think the majority of the students know what | * Do you think the majority of the students know what the terms polygon and polyhedron mean? | ||
* Imagine if Noxolo had directly told the class at the beginning of the lesson the definition of a polygon and | * Imagine if Noxolo had directly told the class at the beginning of the lesson the definition of a polygon and polyhedron, how different would the learning for the students be? Would she know whether her students are learning? | ||
* Do you think that Noxolo has paced her lesson effectively? (Was she in a hurry to teach the topic or did she take too much time to repeat certain ideas?) | * Do you think that Noxolo has paced her lesson effectively? (Was she in a hurry to teach the topic or did she take too much time to repeat certain ideas?) | ||
* Do you think that effective lesson pacing will always result in avoiding over-running or under-running of a lesson? Why? | * Do you think that effective lesson pacing will always result in avoiding over-running or under-running of a lesson? Why? | ||
