Team Teacher: Mr. Alred
The one major thing that I learned from Matt Alred is how to make the students do most of the work!! This is a major challenge for me and I could still use some work on this, but I have gotten a lot better with sitting back and letting the students do all the work for me. I still like to talk/discuss things with my student, but Matt has been challenging my fellow social studies teachers and I to create a classroom where the student is hard at work and not the teacher. Although I feel that this is not the best way to teach everything, it does help build the skills and confidence of the students and makes my job a lot easier!!