Blog 6

What strategies does the teacher us to actively engage the students? How effective are these?

I love when teachers are willing to allow students to comment on the lesson, which is a way of engaging the students.  Also planning activities that the students will all enjoy and learn from are far better than a silent sit down class talk.

We were doing a lesson on the 5 senses of the body and the teacher used the great weather to her advantage.  Instead of making the students stay inside and just think of things, or use the classroom to explore we went on a Sense Scavenger-hunt out on the playground.  The students were thrilled to get to learn outside and it made it really fun to see what creative things they came up with.  When we came back into the room, they then had to draw a picture of what they found on a piece of paper and we rewarded them with a treat which was also their taste sense.  They really enjoyed this, and learned a new way of connecting the senses. I know that when I teach I would rather be doing a fun and exciting lesson than making them sit in the classroom the whole time.  It can be very fun for the teacher as well to get active with the students.