Step 4.
Make the material in the four or five sentences of
Step 3 as specific and concrete as possible. Go into
detail. Use examples. Don’t ask, “What will I say
next?” Instead, say some more about what you have just
said. Your goal is to say a lot about a little – not a little
about a lot.
X statement- These two teachers’ teaching styles are very different.
1. Their teaching styles are very different because they conduct their classrooms with
different techniques.
a. Teacher A conducts his classroom with science labs, while using the textbook as little
as possible. Teacher A guides his tenth grade students through science labs, such as
having students measure acidity in different samples of water using different
acidity tests (elaborate on kinds of tests). Students only use the science textbook
to compare their results with acidity charts of other materials like battery acid,
lemonade, and milk.
b. Teacher B conducts his classroom primarily out of a textbook, and rarely finds time
to help students apply their knowledge.
c. Teacher A regularly gives students ample time to finish their work in class, but
sometimes subsidizes that work with homework.
d. Teacher B rarely gives students enough time to complete their work in class and
often tacks on an abundance of reading and answering questions for work to be
conducted after class.