Planning Lessons with Engagement | Origin: EC110
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Reaching High-Levels of Student Engagement --> Planning Lessons with Engagement
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This lesson has taught me that failure is a crucial part of growth, teaching resilience, adaptability, and valuable lessons for future success. It fosters innovation, strengthens character, and provides insight that success alone cannot.
my assignments so far have been very specific with a one detailed approach to the end result. Going forward, I am going to try to make lessons very open ended, promoting different strategies and welcoming failure.
Setting up my classroom so active engagement and group discussions can occur.
The Abundance mindset encourages students to see value in learning from peers and sharing their knowledge openly. In a Carousel activity, students build on each other’s contributions, creating a richer, more diverse pool of ideas. When we de-emphasize the grade aspect and instead focus on the collective success of students sharing and contributing ideas to learn we create a more relaxed but enjoyable learning environment.
I appreciated the reminder that failure in school on a test, or other activity is a part of future successes. It reactivates the brain.
Teachers should allow students to complete task on their own & encourage the students to ask guiding questions
My mind is racing for ways to ask hard questions and or to create discussions just beyond the reach of the class. In this case, I want to call on students who think they are right. Then I need to show the class that our loudest member does not have all of the answers. Next i will engage a shy quiet student in the classroom discussion. If i can encourage the shy kid to solve the issue.
This may invite a talk about how we all learn in different ways.
It is important to provide students with opportunities to think deeper.
Use multiple resources to find information on a topic so that students can access information from different sources.
I’ve learned that there are advantages to failures. And opportunities are being missed.
I have learned the power of facilitating discussions over merely talking at the students. The socratic circle method sound very effective and I look forward to trying it in my classroom.
Teaching with student engagement is a great way to have them ask questions and question the fellow students as well as the teacher. Students that ask questions are more excited about the material being taught. Incorporating failure into the shop projects stimulates the mind more. Failure can be used in a positive way to better learn the lesson.
There is so much to take from that section. My main thing I took away was setting kids up to purposely fail the task, then have one ask a question, have another student try to answer it and keep it going until we can piece together the final. Also changing the classroom around to help with the learning. That would be so helpful if I could actually do that but my kitchens get in the way.
One of the key takaways for me was the idea of the teacher as the facilitator. This helps me in my marketing classroom as students are working on different group projects, which are real life events. I have not varied my seating lately which is something I want to take away from this lesson.
Teachers need to consistently provide multiple intelligence style lesson plan opportunities for all types of learners. It is important to design a classroom layout which is conductive to learning.
One of the key takeaways from this section is the reminder that the way a space is set up and the position/role of the teacher is a huge piece of the educational puzzle. I am encouraged to do more time in Socratic method circles and to be more intentional about asking more questions and giving students more involvement in the learning process.
Sometimes as a facilitator I seem to view failure as a negative thing, but after this module I see that failure is actually not an all-bad thing that can actually be incorporated into the overall design of the lesson.
Using group projects that end in one or two classes allows you to mix up the students constantly.
It is critical to plan movement and variation in the classroom to increase engagement. Also, the ability of the teacher to find the balance between being present as a support and encouraging self-exploration is critical to achieving positive results from more students.
