"Chess For Progress: How A Grandmaster Is Using The Game To Teach Life Skills" caught my eye when I was scrolling through NPR's 50 Great Teachers series. I personally do not know how to play chess myself, but it made me think of my younger sister who loves chess... and doesn't really like school. I thought to myself, maybe there is potential in including chess in my students' environment.
There were beneficial takeaways about being an ally in Maquita Peters' article and this was the list I compiled that Peters' piece developed: Allies to teachers Allies to international students Allies to students with financial difficulties Allies to students with nontraditional dreams Allies to students with nontraditional backgrounds Allies to students who need more support in their personal lives Allies to students who need practice with decision-making and critical-thinking skills "That's really what's critical for me, that they are learning to be better students, role models, and citizens," the chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley stated. I agree Ashley. The second article I read was about active learning and considering the possibility of ditching lectures. Okay, we've heard that before in my English Education classes, but I was interested because it was talking about STEM education. I love my English degree because it's teaching me how to think, but honestly, my friends going into Veterinary school have a lot of stuff to know and lectures help out with those facts. In fact, Eric Westervelt writes about the advantages of lectures. But, the other perspective was determined to show the evidence that project based learning really does help you ally with students. They needed to drive their own education and organize knowledge effective for them and that's the deal. Just keep in mind you teachers out there that this thing that we call 'teaching' is a learning process. Perfection isn't possible so drop that now and just be honest with your students. It really does cultivate a great environment to be allies in.
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12/3/2018 05:58:59 pm
The argument of whether lectures or more connected learning is better is something that will never be resolved because everyone learns differently. We, as English students, love to blog and have discussions, but those vet students' minds work completely differently and that's why they aren't in the same major as us. Learning is a fascinating subject that is always changing.
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I really like what you said about teaching being a learning process. As educators, we are striving to create lifelong learners, which means that we must be lifelong learners ourselves! If 'perfection' is the goal, then we are certain to fail. Seems like you learned a lot from these resources!
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