A new way of teaching: What you see and what you think
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Students in Sarah Mendoza’s first-grade class at Julius Patrick Elementary School stare at a picture of animals in a forest with a cluster of people in the background.
After two minutes of quietly studying the picture on Mendoza’s Promethean board, she asks them what they see.
Their answers start with simple observations: “I see a lion.” ”I see people.”