Just a short note to follow up on yesterday's long discussion about heat movement I posted about this morning:
At the beginning of class today Lezlie asked the group about strategies they were finding in the class that support learning. After group discussion the teachers came back to discuss all together. Adria comments on the advantages of working through a question to get to the answer. It was a long process yesterday to finally come to an understanding about why heat goes from hot to cold, but now she says that she will never forget it after the very long and involved discussion yesterday.
(Don't have video yet, but the episode will be on the video of Table 4 towards the start of class)
Most of the teachers in the class seem always to want to just be told the answer (which makes sense because they are curious and want to know!) but maybe after a few of these experiences of working through to the answer the hard way without simply being told they will start to see --like Adria-- the benefits to the struggle.
Earlier in the same discussion Brian also comment on how much he has liked all the group discussion they've been doing. He said he usually doesn't like group work because he ends up doing everything, but here everyone is really collaborating and that's creating an even better learning experience than simply working on his own.
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