Teaching in my classroom

Concept Attainment Model is a method I use often in my class. The definition for this is "The Concept Attainment Model is a teacher-guided instructional model through which students develop an understanding of a concept by examining examples and nonexamples and by analyzing their critical and non-critical attributes."

I will say that the descriptions being "pictures, text, video clips, animations, sounds, songs, poems, articles, words, mathematical computations, sentences, etc..." Some of these I find very useful and use them daily. The smartboard has brought a new world to video clips.

Much of 4th grade is teaching big ideas because they have learned how to read and do math...while I teach them how to apply these skills. The big ideas in 4th grade I would say is teaching them how to be good learners.