Scenario 5
Mrs. Bona, a 5th grade teacher in her 10th year of teaching, has helped many struggling students feel better about participating in class. Today she asked if any students could define peninsula. One student raised his hand and said “It’s like, where the water indents into the land.” “Right,” Mrs. Bona replied, trying to reinforce participation since so few hands had gone up. Then she added, “Well, except that a peninsula is where land indents into water, which is a little different.”



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Scenario 6
Mrs. Cobb notices that Maya, a young lady who sits in the middle of the classroom, continues to turn around, appearing distracted and annoyed with Andrew, the young man that sits directly behind her. In the past, Mrs. Cobb has had to remind Andrew to keep his hands to himself and more often, to keep his feet on the floor instead of on the seatback in front of him. Maya is not the only person becoming distracted by this situation, so Mrs. Cobb says “Andrew please take your feet off of Maya’s seatback.” Andrew reacts to this by replying “But she keeps pushing her desk back into my space!” Mrs. Cobb feels the need to ask Maya if, in fact, she was pushing her desk backwards into Andrew’s space, which means that she has now engaged the entire class in something that was clearly not her lesson objective.