Reflection of Dave Hewitt's Classroom

Watching the video of Dave Hewitt's classroom gave me the opportunity to witness a new style of teaching. The sudden striking of the board with a ruler and getting students to count confused me because I couldn't see any numbers where he was striking. His technique of getting the students to verbalize their answers was a good way to get them to understand the patterns. Jumping back and forth and getting them to understand counting with positive integers and negative integers was a good way to segue into discussion of linear equations. The repetition in the older classroom of the pattern of solving a linear equation was a good way to get the students to understand why they perform certain operations to solve linear equations. As discussed in class, one might perceive his constant repetition of problems as over-the-line but if you examine the students in class, they do not seem to mind the repetition. In fact, they seem to be paying attention to him. Overall, I think the levels of interactivity and engagement of the class in the lesson were good and are a model for me possibly to integrate into my teaching style.