Today I observed Marco working with David. He focused
on tongue-twisters. Although David’s speaking skills are excellent, he needs
work with his depth of vocabulary. By using tongue-twisters, such as “Can you can
a can as a
canner can can a can?” Marco asked David what each usage of “Can” means in the sentence. By
drilling him using tongue-twisters, David’s depth of vocabulary was able to go
up. I was very impressed with the creative idea.
Then
Marco focused on drilling David with vocabulary cards they had been using for
the past few weeks. He asked David for the definition and an example of the
word in a sentence as Marco read out what the words were. When David couldn’t
figure out what a word meant, Marco kept on giving him examples of how the word
is used in a sentence, and let David infer the meaning of the word. I think if a student infers the meaning for
himself, the student can learn all the better, as he has to “work” for the learning
himself, instead of just receiving without thinking about it.
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