Trina Lancaster Blog Post #4 Routman:Teach with a Sense of Urgency

     Reading the shared demonstration section where it talks about social interaction between the students and the teacher being integral to the learning process, brought to mind how important it is to be social with your students. Although you are teaching with urgency you still need to give students feedback and build the relationships that teachers learn from students just as much as students can learn from their teacher while sharing what they are thinking. Routman states, “Teaching and learning are seen as inseparable components of the same process.” Not only do I believe that students become engaged with learning from the teacher but the teacher is able to learn so much more about the students during this social process. It’s a win-win situation.

      I love the fact that it’s okay to let the kids know that teachers are humans who sometimes need to redo teaching strategies. When reading the Put the Learning Model into Action section it talks about how we sometimes go to quick, don’t explain enough or go on teaching when the kids don’t understand what we just said. Routman gives a great explanation to tell the kids why you are re-teaching or re-explaining. I think it is important for students to see that teachers are learning too and sometimes we just have to do things again to get it right.