Week 4 Investment

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For my Week 4  Investment Blog, I am presenting 3 questions from our assigned readings. 
1) For your future students and/or future school administrators
To future students, what do you students think of bellwork (interest approaches)? Do you think they effectively get you interested or not?
2) For your cooperating teacher and/or university supervisor
Laura Metrick, how do you effectively plan for a lesson in regards to time? Do you try to over plan and know that you will not fit everything in?
3) For one of your current virtual mentors (be specific!) and/or your cohort
To Team Witmer virtual Mentors, what is the best way to effectively plan different teaching styles each lesson? I know it is "easy" to teach each week and class the same way, how do you find new styles of teaching and lesson planning? 

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  1. gagnegearinguptoteachSeptember 15, 2019 at 6:13 PM

    Brandon,

    I also wonder about what students think of interest approaches!

    How can we know as an educators if our interest approach served its purpose? Is it based off student engagement in the interest approach or engagement during the rest of the lesson? What do you think?

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