Monday Night Lecture

I believe the role playing exercise was an effective way to help learn about student learning and accountability because it put us students in a somewhat "life like" setting of what each side of this situation would argue in order to have the end result be in their favor. Some of the disadvantages to using a more lecture form of teaching is that the students are not able to interact with other students or the teacher. Also, they aer unable to express their opinion on certain issues because they would just be getting direct information from the teacher. Some advantages to this type of teaching is that it is a very structured environment so the students are able to get the maximum amount of learning time they can receive. I believe that we do spend more time paying attention to the higher achieving students and parents rather than the lower achieving students because we focus on helping these students excel even more rather than helping the lower achieving students catch up to the students with the higher standards.