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This chapter focused on education outside the actual classroom and how useful going outside the classroom can be to students. Field trips and other work outside the classroom can help students to be less bored and much more interested in material because they are able to see things demonstrated in the world outside of school. This is a very good way to help students understand why they are learning the material and to help them apply their knowledge. Education is about learning material, but it is also about appyling that material in life outside the classroom. Education means nothing without application, and it's main purpose is to help students prepare for the world after school. Doing things outside of the classroom can help students apply themselves.

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Chapter 9 was very good because it deals with how to teach the students that many teachers don't even want to deal with, and subsequently give up on. Many discouraged students are hard to deal with, and they get to the point where they do not want to even try anymore and feel that school doesn't matter for them. It is a teachers job to show them that they can succeed and encourage them not to give up. This chapter also discusses what the teacher should do if a classroom gets out of control, which is very helpful knowledge as sometimes students act out. This chapter also stresses the importance of not giving up on students when they are not doing well, but rather to try to help them succeed.

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This chapter gave good insight into how to teach students that are still learning English. This can be a very tough thing for teachers if they don't know how to accommodate these students. The part of the chapter that I found particularly good is the part about incorporating different cultures into the curriculum. It is important, especially in my field of history, to not only study one culture. It is very important to understand what is going on all over the world and to understand the different viewpoints that different cultures have on past events. Students from different cultures, if taught correctly, can add a lot to the class in terms of differing viewpoints.

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I thought that chapter 7 was very good. It really addressed a lot of questions that i had about teaching, more so even then the rest of the book has. As a person who has a real passion for the subject which I will be teaching, I will want to challenge my students and present difficult material to them. This chapter gave me many, many answers about how to present this material effectively so that the students can learn it. I also really liked how the chapter presented information about presenting difficult material with regards to all of the different subjects.

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This chapter was mainly about what to do to motivate students to learn. It gives good insight into how to keep students from getting bored. The chapter discusses what time of day is best for doing different kinds of work and also what environment is best for the students to learn. One important factor that the chapter focuses on in keeping students from not being bored is that of being passionate about the material one is teaching. For me, one of the key elements of teaching is being passionate about the material. If a student sees that their teacher doesn't care about what they are teaching, then why would the student think that it is important or exciting to learn?

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This chapter stresses the importance of understanding students as individuals. It points out the hard task that teachers have in trying to incorporate all of the students as a whole, but also teaching the students on an individual level. The chapter also stresses how important it is for the students to work in groups and also highlights the best strategies for helping kids work in groups. The chapter essentially focused on the student as the individual as well as part of a group.

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Chapter four is all about how much encouragement from a teacher can help kids learn. This chapter reveals that students do not want to be viewed as failures and that encouragement from a teacher can be a large factor in their ability to succeed. Students need to be shown that if they try hard, they can do well in class and be able to learn well. If students are told that they will not succeed and that they are failures by their teachers, there is no way that they will be motivated to learn effectively in the class. The chapter also states that a teacher also must challenge the students and set high expectations. When high expectations are set, however, a teacher must understand that they must help the students learn and not leave them in the dark.

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Chapter three is basically about behavior in the classroom and how to keep students from being disruptive. It stresses that if a teacher keeps learning as the priority in the classroom and keeps the kids interested in the material and to recognize why kids are acting out. This chapter gives good insight into the reasons why kids act out and it is good to hear the students themselves discuss why they disrupt class and to get a view into the students' state of mind. It also stresses the amount of stock that students put into a teacher being fair.