There are many ways to engage students in learning now in the 21st century. A lot of teachers have to get use to the way technology is running the world and how much students will appreciate it if it was used in a classroom. There are ways that the classroom is set up there is teacher centered and student centered. Also, there are methods on how to engage students while learning.
Let me describe what teacher centered teaching is that a major focus and energy of a class flows from the teacher to the students. The organization of the classrooms is based on whole group instruction, seat work is individual by rows, there are many assessments based on worksheets and a viewing that learning is hard. This is the kind of teaching that was used before technology. Where there was only a chalk board and work sheets. The only goal that the teacher has to instruct effectively and let the students learn from that.
In the other hand now that were in the 21st century we should be teaching more student centered. Student centered is when students are actively part of the elements of a class. Some examples that describe this is whole groups, small groups of instruction, assessments are based on projects and portfolios, there is cooperative learning and learning happens when the content being taught is integrated into real world problems and can be used with technology. This teaching style is the best to make sure that students are actually understanding and engaging what your instructing. You are able to create situations that they will need to figure out in a group/technology way.
With having the correct teaching style then comes ways on how to make sure your method of engaging your students is correct. There are four methods that are actively created to engage. One of these methods is one on one tutoring. They adapt teaching directly to there own ways when using real world problems. Second, is learning groups make students work together and solve problems as a group.They will be able to learn how to communicate with there peers and make decisions. Also, inquiry learning is making students do a project and then make them ask relevant questions. This makes students really understand the topic. Lastly, metacongitive thinking meaning showing students how to examine there own learning methods through self explanations.
As a teacher you have to think what way you want to make your classroom centered. If its either student centered and teacher centered. Also, there ways on how to engage students on learning. So that every student is able to learn in there own way.
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Great job on finding and embedding your visual enhancements in both photo and video formats! Super attributions, too! :) Do check my comments on your previous post, but remember that you will want to write more about your own thoughts, opinions, and experiences, etc than writing a summary of the chapter. Consider what you have read and specify three concepts that you can relate to - then write your thoughts about teacher-centered v. student-centered teaching, for example - no need to describe them!
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