Focus on the Process, Not the Outcome | Origin: EC110
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Reaching High-Levels of Student Engagement --> Focus on the Process, Not the Outcome
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SWOT analysis is a strategic tool used to evaluate Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, helping businesses and individuals make informed decisions and develop effective strategies.
Focusing on how students get an answer rather than the answer itself provides better quality learning.
SWOT in whole group and break out groups.
Different students absorb information in different ways—some may learn best through hands-on activities (kinesthetic learners), others through visual aids (visual learners), and some through verbal explanations (auditory learners). By addressing multiple modalities, the teacher ensures that all students are engaged and can interact with the material in a way that suits their learning style.
SWOT analysis is an effective tool for business and making decisions.
Facilitate discussions between students b/c collaboration makes the material stick in their brains.
I have always had an issue with traditional grading. It puts the full emphasis on the outcome and does not encourage students to enjoy the journey.
The SWOT and 4 corners activities is something that I have never tried before. I think they are great formative assessments.
I have learned that process is more important than outcome. If you teach process then they will learn both process and outcome.
I like the SWOT analysis method as it forces students to think critically, and also research and analyse a given topic/scenario. For example, students may have a strong desire to work with a particular company. Performing a SWOT analysis on the company can assist students in making holistic decisions.
I’m going to work on having my classes do more discussion based learning.
The SWOT analysis is a very helpful tool to bolster engagement and spark learning.
Students need to be able to describe and discuss ideas and be competitive to help them develop collaboration skills with real person to person discussions. In a classroom setting students brains may sync up during discussions. This will help them critical thinking skills.
I like the activity scenerios. This can be done with so many things meaning it is very versatile, I like the entry and exit cards, I do need to get into that routine more but I will get the kids who see it isnt graded and just not do it, thank you middle school.
I liked the activity example where students were presented with the real world example and then had to defend their strategy. I think this is very applicable to many areas of CTE instruction. I also like the SWOT analysis, I use that often in my business classes.
SWOT is a great example of whole class and small group learning!
I had never heard of SWOT so it was interesting to be introduced to that teaching strategy method.
Low stakes reading quizzes before class lead to more involved conversations.
I really like the idea of using "entrance tickets" and "exit tickets" as a method to deemphasize grades as a metric of daily learning. I also thought that the one teacher's feedback recommending groups not larger than 3 was very interesting.
