Chapter 4

In a world where time is of the essence, Chapter 4 "Ringing Chimes" is music to my ears. Not only is it a short chapter, but I think it speaks what every teacher is thinking. Or at least, of what I'm thinking. I love that Burmark mentions the Saturday Night Live Sketch of Father Guido Sarducci, and how in his university, the entired degree program takes only five minutes. He then goes on to explain what he would teach in Spanish class (how to ask how someone is doing, and the response to it), and that 5 years after graduating, that's all you're going to remember (Burmark 61).  Burmark also mentions Larry Ainsworth book, Power Standards, in which he states that no teacher has the time to teach all the standards, so they focus on the super important, crucial ones.

From this chapter, "effiency meets effectiveness" also stuck with me. We need to do things quickly, but we need to do them well. And in order to do this Burmark states that we need to get their attention, and we need to make the presentation stick (Burmark 62). As educators we need to emphasize what we want the kids to learn and remember forever. Also I liked that Burmark mentions that we need to attract but not distract. Sometimes we want to make things flashy, and full of animations, but is that going to help the students learn the information or is that going to hinder their learning?

CHIMES was also interesting because it helps prioritize what we need to do in our presentations as speakers or presenters, and it gives us a better understanding of how the audience is grading us per say.

Connections

Humor

Images

Music

Emoton

Story

Senses

Overall, I appreciated the honesty of this chapter.