While reading our book, I felt like there were so many ah-ha moments that I will take away. This will definitely be a book that I will pick up in the future for ideas on how to better my classroom. Something I'm sure I knew before but never really thought of was the fact that students can only remember so much. As teachers we have to think about all the information we are feeding the students and what we are requiring them to use right away or in the future. Something that I was surprised by was the fact that when we are trying to have students remember something and we use a hook for them to relate to, we may be pulling their attention in the wrong direction and loose them for the rest of the lesson. I will be able to incorporate this book into my knowledge of teaching by getting to know how my students thinking process in the beginning of the year and vary my lessons accordingly. I feel like the biggest thing I personally took away from this book was to always try to improve on my teaching techniques and skills. I should never feel fully comfortable with what I'm doing because there is always so much more then can be improved.
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