response to Dave Hewitt's film

I thought the way he introduced pattern finding was really neat. With him tabbing the board or the wall to count numbers, students were really engaged. At first, I thought it was too repetitious. However, the video shows that some students were still not getting the concept of additions and subtractions that involved with a letter. It is important for me to think in student’s perspective, what I think is too much may not apply to students. I like how he interacted with students; it was a lot of talking and walking around the class. No notes taking was needed which could be helpful in some aspect. However, in my opinion, the traditional way of teaching still has its value. I think activities, group discussions etc. can be used as an aid to complement the traditional teaching. They add different flavours to the teaching as well as getting students involved in the learning process. Also, I like his idea of teacher not being the person with authority to do the checking. Instead, students should do the self-check so that they can gain confidence. After all, teaching or educating is all about helping students, we need to find the best ways to teach different topics so that students can learn the best.