Hobie Cox Blog Spot

       Ms. Mitari keeps her students engaged through many activities  in order to teach her students in a way where they are able to retain information to the best of each students ability. I can see how activities within the classroom are important as it allows students to remain active and engaged when it comes to learning new materials or concepts. There are three examples of activities that I will talk about that goes over how Ms. Mitari kept her students engaged.       For an English assignment, the class did an investigative analysis on the death of King Tut. Throughout the week we learned about King Tut's death. Ms. Mitari used a textbook, an essay, and informational videos that discussed the details surrounding King Tut's death. At the end of the week she posed the question to the students on whether or not King Tut died by murder or by natural causes. This gave the students an opportunity to write an argumentative essay, where they h...

  Describe a time your cooperative teacher has offered choice to students.                  Ms. Mitari uses a lot  of opportunities  to provide choices for her students. When it comes to learning a topic, she allows the students to make choices if they want to group up with their peers. She takes this as an opportunity  to gage  the understanding of what the students know and what they don't. A lot of the times the students decide to do group work which  Ms. Mitari goes to each group and asks them questions regarding what they are learning . Another example of Ms. Mitari giving her student choices is the way they are allowed to spend their classroom points.               At the end of each week, her classroom collects points based on if they followed instructions correctly, completed a task, participated in the classroom, or any positive act that can be reinf...

 On my first day of observations I had the luck of seeing Ms. Mitari's class launch hot air balloons! This was for science lesson, explaining how heat particles expand and uses the hot air balloons to explain that. The hot air balloons were made out of parchment paper and the heat source was a long cylindrical tube that expelled out heat with the fuel coming from a propane tank. The heat source was a little bit unreliable with flames sometimes shooting out of the tubes, causing some (if not most) of the hot air balloons to catch fire. I helped Ms. Mitari by moving the propane tank from side to side as the gas wouldn't transfer if it remained sitting. I also used a fire extinguisher for the first time to extinguish the hot air balloons that had caught on fire. The students made me laugh as they would cheer for their hot air balloons that were on fire and some of them asking me not to put the fire out and to have them burn just a little bit longer! Overall a really great first da...