Kid Watching

Why is kid watching a critical practice for teacher to use? How is kidwatching informed by cultural difference theory?

Kid watching is a super important practice for teacher's to participate in for multiple reasons. First, it allows the teacher to understand some of the students' feelings about particular activities. The article talked specifically about reading but even when doing other activities, students give signals as to when they are bored, annoyed, confused, stressed, etc. If you are doing an activity and the students don't seem to be enjoying it, it needs to be tweeked. 

Also, teachers who are good at this could get more information on their students without doing an interest inventory. If a teacher watches a student enough and records it, he or she could know which subjects in school the child likes and what he or she likes to do outside of school. 

Kid watching also gives the teacher and idea of a child's attittude about school in general.