Power Teaching and Teacher Expectations

Power Teaching seems like a really nice way to get students involved in learning. To have gestures for everything really helps the students to remember everything they were taught. I believe that hand gestures, sayings, and songs help the students remember, because right now I could still remember things that I learned many years ago. For example, in math I was taught to use PEMDAS and my teacher taught by telling us it stands for Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. Power teaching is a great thing to use in the classroom, especially if some students can not remember the work. The only problem that I would fix is I would walk around the classroom to observe the children teaching each other.
As far as teacher expectations I expect that rules are made by the students and I. I want them to understand the rules, so I would make the list with them. I would like my classroom to be known as a fun learning environment. I do not want my students to become bored because bordem equals to not listening to anything. I believe that Power teaching should be used once in a while in the classroom and I could see myself using it. The expectations teachers have for their students and the assumptions they make about their potential have a great effect on student achievement. Teachers' expectations for students whether high or low can become a self-fulfilling way of thinking for the student. That is, students tend to give to teachers as much or as little as teachers expect of them. That is why I am going to treat students the same and have high expectations of them so they feel as though they can make it and go above and beyond with their work. When teachers believe in students, students believe in themselves. When those you respect think you can, YOU think you can!

Homework

Homework helps students to further understand what they learned in class. If parents do their childrens homework, the child is losing the understanding of everthing they should know or be learning. Homework is practice of a skill already learned. Even though a skill may have been introduced during the school day, the student may not be ready to practice independently. Close communication between school and home can help support the student in this situation. For example, a parent who understands how a science concept is being demonstrated in school will have an easier job helping reinforce that concept at home. So helping students with homework is also good. My mother and father used to be heavily involved in my school work and what I was learning, they used to help me with it when I needed the help from them. Parents and siblings should help when the child needs help with homework without telling them the answer. The student should have to think rather than being told the answer. Overall I believe homework should never be stopped because homework is just another way of helping us understand what we learned earlier.