Blog #5

I really enjoyed this video. I thought it was a great way to see the different levels that students are at within one classroom. One thing that I really took away from this video was the way to word and 

phrase questions, not only when asking them out loud, but also when students are working on activities. When Mrs. Maronpot was creating the puzzle activity for her students, she said that the method she used when creating the questions was starting at the “second level” type questions (comprehension questions) because that is where she felt the majority of her students were at and she then created questions that were below and above that level (knowledge, application and analysis type questions). I also liked how she assigned questions to students based on their level, but she had each student read out their question to their group so in the end every student plays a part in answering all levels of questions. I think this would be a great activity to implement in a classroom because it allows students to learn at their own level, but also can push them into that scaffolding learning stage. I am already starting to feel the pressure of reaching all my students no matter what level they are at and I really think that this strategy can be useful not only in a science class but any other content area class, as well. For example, you could use this in a math class by creating math problems to work out and create problems that are each type of question and have groups of students work out each problem so every student is learning at all levels.

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