Sunday 13 October 2013

Steps to better student engagement

(1) Today in class our group choose and presented Ethiopia, steps to better student engagement. We discussed the following:
      - Create an Emotionally safe classroom
 This is way students who have been shamed or belittle by the teacher or another student will not effectively engage in challenging tasks. Examples bad vs good teachers.
Bad teacher:
We looked at where a teacher asked a question to the class and there were a student who came rushing up and started shouting the answer. The teacher became very upset and speak to the child in an very inappropriate manner.She said,"what kind of monkey behavior is that ? what kind of stupid attitude you are getting on with?"
Where As a Good teacher:
Normally a good teacher would reply to student and say," your answer was good but not what i was looking for, thank you and please raise your hand next time. You may take your seat now."

-Work
Students in school get used to doing work at a consistent level of quality. Unfortunately, low performing students get used to doing poor quality work. Example Revision from the previous class may help student with better understanding and refreshing there minds.This will improve there strengths and weakness in students areas.

-Marketing your projects
As teachers, we must be ready with the best answers possible for our students. Great project will  helps in their lives,jobs, or relationships. Example we look at how addition affects our everyday life's.
I asked my students why addition in important? Some answers were they do not like maths. Her parents do not use maths, so why should I. I explained to them giving them some ideas on how this affects our life's and how important this is. Example 1) when you go to the canteen to purchase a juice for $3.00 and a corn curls for $2.00, the total will be $5.00. You will have to know if the money you are giving the canteen lady is correct and if you have to receive change.
2) the next example i shared with my students were, some of you students travel to and from  if i am not mistaken?
you all will have to know how much to give the taxi driver and if you have to collected change make sure you get the correct amounted.

(2) Working with pre-service teachers has been great in our group. We all exchanged ideas but there contributed a lot more than us due to there experiences as teachers from before. Because at that moment I was very nervous , my feet were cold but there were here for me  by encouraging me and letting me know that it is not hard and one's you get the grep for the first time you will  like it. What they said was true, i did liked it and I will try again.

(3) I realized that they were good communication amount members in the group. For the members who have the experience give those were not. it turned out to be successful.

(4) However, I am still weak in presenting my work in front of my classmates, this has  caused me a lot of mistakes by stumbling and repeating  my words.. This is worth improving because later on I will have many presentation to do like this.

(5) The engagement strategies and scenarios that we developed as a team were very important for me, the pre service teachers to take into consideration our students.

(6) This helped me to improved my strengths and weakness about the important of the steps to better student engagement. A more clear vision on how to go about helping and guiding along  my students in the further.

1 comment:

  1. You are a hard-working person Yashoda. You are making the effort and I appreciate this. Keep trying and know that I am here to help you along the way.

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