Meaningful activities

A few meaningful activities I have seen in the class rooms are: avoiding dead time、 using projects and presentations、 and using movement. 

 one teacher avoids dead time and engages the students by doing centers. Kids work on individual projects at each table while she works with struggling children at the back table. 

one teacher does a lot of projects I feel like I am almost always putting in grades for one project or another. She teaches the advanced 6th grade class. But her students help lead the teaching by doing presentations and working in groups. Often times she helps them teach each other. 

another teacher uses movement. He has the kids get up and do a times table challange. This helps the kids wake up physically and mentally in the morning before taking a math test.
I have noticed times when class could be more engaging and meaningful. But most often that is when the leather has left very little instruction or sub plans for the substitute. Another time is when teachers over use technology. Although I see the great resource that it can be overused to create time the teacher does not have to teach. Most of the time the teacher uses this time to work with struggling students but on rare occasions I feel it is being abused. 



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