C4T # 1

I had Mr. John Spencer as my first C4T blog post.  He is a teacher in Phoenix ,Arizona and he likes to relate most of his blog post to pencil.  The tittle of his blog is Tom Johnson's Adventures in Pencil Integration.


In this particular blog post Mr. Spencer talked about how some parents and children only focus on what the outside of things looks like, they don't look at the inner beauty. He goes on to say that with time and once the parents are involved in the children's learning things change.  They begin to see what the children is learning and how they are learning it.  The parents are no longer looking at the child's work from the outside but now they are looking at what the child has accomplished whether the problem be right or wrong, they now see the effort that was put in. In my comment that I left for Mr. Spencer saying that i agreed with him completely because some parents do not get involved in the child's learning they simply look with their eyes and not their minds.  I compared the parents involvement in the child's learning to looking at a pencil as just a pencil and not seeing what the pencil can represent.


 The last blog post that I commented on was about show and tell and what it can do for a classroom.  He gave examples of things that meant something to him but may not have meant anything to another person.  He said show and tell gives the children a way to share things about themselves in a different way. He commented that not every child has to participate in this exercise but it does help the children learn about each other in a different way.  The last thing he talks about is having school be a show and tell type.  This means put a personal touch on the things we teach and show the students things on a more personal level.  I commented on his blog saying that I agree with him because show and tell can be such a rewarding thing in a classroom.  It help children understand why things may mean different things to different people.  It also gives a feeling of personal involvement both on the students side and teachers side.