The video from Ferris Bueller's Day off shows exactly the way a teacher should be in front of the class, providing a lecture, and he nailed in on how to provoke strong discussion within the class. If you agree, Shut the Front Door! In no way was that thought provoking or strong in anyway, shape, or form. Although it is funny, it illustrates such a great point. Teacher's should be able to create a strong classroom engaged in powerful discussion. I got the chance to sit with the high school teacher here in my area, and I learned a lot from the way she conducted her classroom and engaging students in discussion. I walked into the classroom just like I did everyday as I observed this teacher, and this one day was particularly awesome because we got to study political parties and what their stance on many issues, and then what the students believed which helped them see what party they could affiliate with better. This was the day of days to be the classroom because I like to hear what students think and believe. This teacher pulled up a PowerPoint showing the different things. On the slides were stance on marijuana and abortion. These were two topics that were thoroughly discussed. The teacher asked a simple question to the class, "should marijuana be legalized?" The question was simple, but students began voicing their opinions, and believe me they had some opinions (made for an awesome and lively class period). However, the responses came in the form of yes or no. Then she had to follow up with,"why?" Then we started to see more in depth discussion and answers. This took place on the different topics, but their were always the first responses of yes or no. I loved how good the class took part, but the word of advice I would give to the teacher from what I just learned would be to start off with a stronger and more open ended question. For example, "According to what you know about marijuana, should it be legalized in all states and for what reasons?" I feel by having stronger questions we ask teachers could get stronger authentic responses, and I feel that we could fulfill the level of evaluation part that van De Weghe writes about. I like students thoughts and ideas, and they all have them so it is our job as teachers to get them to voice what they believe, and in doing so we can evaluate them more strongly. If a student responds with more than yes or no then can see what they are learning. With the discussion on legalization of marijuana students can voice their opinions, and then that could lead them to see where they fall in the spectrum of political parties they can support.