No Child Left Behind Role Play

I feel that engaging students in role play will be beneficial to their learning. After a while, even in my classes, I tend to wander off while teachers are just talking. But by having students engage the questions and ideas and fire the questions back and forth at each other really works.
I thought Dr. Langholz and Dr. Kinnick did a great job of setting the scence for the role play. If they just stood there the role play wouldn't have been as effective but since they both particpated and provided useful information. They did their jobs as role playing and it helped engage the students.
In my town, I feel the people who have a higher adavtange are the parents that contribute to the school. In one case, a student got special privledges because her parents had more power in the school system, it may not necessarily be the higher income families.

Passion!

Let's start with the negative, In high school, I had a teacher that spoke with a monotone and we did nothing fun to gage our learning..he sat and lectured and lectured. Some people might have learned from his teaching style, I did but it was definitely not the style I will use in my teaching.

But to brighten it up, I remember a teacher with great enthusiasm. The teacher I observed for Intro to Teaching throught NIACC. She is a great teacher and she did great songs and such to gage the students to participate in. She loved her job and her kids knew it too.