Karolinka Peterka EDS 190 11/13/13 Interactive Modeling Ch. 5-6 3 Main Ideas 1.

Routine academic skills can be taught through Interactive Modeling. However, it should only be used for academic skills that have one acceptable way of doing things. For more open ended tasks we do not want to limit our students strategies by only modeling one strategy. Good ideas for Interactive Modeling would be writing the date, paraphrasing, writing in complete sentences, or using an index. 2. Social skills need to be taught explicitly. They do not come naturally to some people, not even adults. In order to have a healthy community in our classrooms, we need to be clear on the behavioral expectations. However, telling the students is not enough. We need to give them time to learn and practice the correct behaviors. Interactive Modeling is one way to set these expectations while providing time for practice. 3. It is ok to have adults come in and model certain social behaviors with you. Seeing two adults speak to each other can have a different effect or teach a different lesson than seeing an adult speak to a child. This is often because of the social structures we have in our society. Therefore, when planning an Interactive Modeling lesson, we need to think about what kind of models would be most effective for the particular social skill we are teaching. 2 Questions 1. Is it always necessary to go through all 7 steps of Interactive Modeling? Are there situations when seeing the skill modeled only once is enough and having a student model would be redundant?

2. When practicing social skills through Interactive Modeling, do kids ever make fun of it? When reading the example of accidently calling someone by the wrong name, I could picture my class thinking it was really funny. Especially having them practice with a name like Kermit would surely set them off. Do role playing activities ever lose their effectiveness because the students arent mature enough? How would you prevent this? 1 Idea to Implement 1. I never thought of teaching academic skills through Interactive Modeling. While reading the chapter I realized that I could teach my second graders the proper structure of writing a question. The other day when I was in the classroom, I noticed that students were forgetting to write question marks or capital letters. They were really good at writing periods at the end of their sentences, but they overgeneralized this into writing questions as well. I could do an Interactive Modeling lesson reminding students of the key components of writing a question.