Assessments are a crucial part of education and there is a need to measure where student are at in order to adjust curriculum and motivation. This needs to be done carefully and with very high consideration of the student’s emotional well-being. Rewards systems and positive reinforcement are crucial to creating a supportive environment that students want to be present in. * Nurturing- Creating a love for learning will make learning easier. Finding ways to make the material fun, engaging, and easy to comprehend will nurture a love of learning.
Goodwillie’s book called, “Breaking Through” and Cameron’s book called, “the Artist’s Way,” focuses on two unique ways of teaching people about creative drama. There are many benefits of using creative drama in the classroom. Social awareness is increased through working with others, and pretending to “be” others. By doing this, a child can learn to understand himself and others. Also, Children learn cooperation, leadership, and communication skills.
If lessons are catered to the children in your class it is more likely to captivate them and be more fun because it’s based on their interests and makes learning easier. This could be in a form of playing games, group discussions or independent work to stimulate lesson and make them more interesting. . Identify and obtain the information required to support learning activities.5 1.5 Information required to support learning activities includes: * Relevant school curriculum and age-related expectations of pupils * The teaching and learning resources required * Own role in supporting learning activities * And additional needs of the children involved. Before carrying out activities, you will need to have an awareness of the curriculum and stage at which pupils are at.
Nicola Ithell Unit 219 outcome 1 1.1 My settings ICT policy states :- This policy document sets out the school’s aims, principles and strategies for the delivery of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It will be reviewed at regular intervals and updated as necessary by the ICT Coordinator. As well as being an important curriculum requirement, the ability to use ICT effectively is a vital life skill. We interpret the term Information Communication Technology to include the use of any equipment, which allows users to communicate or manipulate information electronically. The overall aim is to produce learners who are confident and effective users of ICT and to ensure that teachers develop confidence and competence to use ICT to facilitate effective teaching.
In this sense, academic success and performance will benefit and promote the students, the teachers/educators, and also the educational system. Learning is defined as the acquisition of knowledge through practice and experiences. Just as students differ, so does the way they learn. Some students learn by action or doing, some learn by observing, some learn by studying, while some learn by practice. Honey and Mumford identified these as ‘activists’, ‘reflectors’, ‘theorists’ and ‘pragmatists’.
The creative process helps us by teaching us about who we are, what we love and what we can give to others. Benefits Being involved in creative activities is fun and absorbing for children. Evidence suggests that it helps children to have positive experiences and develop important characteristics and abilities such as: • Concentration – Focusing on what they are doing. • Communication - Developing better communication through talking, listening, writing or pictures. • Language - Increasing vocabulary, reading and writing skills.
2. The strength of these philosophies lies in the fact they are all student centered approaches to teaching and learning. I most appreciate the prescriptive nature of the philosophies meaning that they all are attempting to increase learning and decrease behavior issues by establishing roles, routines, and norms of a classroom. I think if I can actively utilize the approaches above, I can create the type of environment that is helpful to both students and still be a place I want to work in. I do not expect that I can do it all the first year, but maybe over time I can bring in more research based applications of classroom management.
Thesis statement: There should be more art and dance classes in the school curriculum. Academic achievement _ According to Ruppert (quoted by Helena Aletta Sophia Prins, 2008), learning experiences in the arts contribute to the development of academic skills _ improve students’ achievement in learning by utilizing the arts as a learning tool such as incorporating the arts into other classes ( create strong bonds between the arts and other subjects, which enables children to learn both deeply ( E.g: Teaching language: integrate music and dance into a language class – new vocabulary and sentence structures through English songs. Learning takes place in a "language-rich" environment. _ A study from the University of California found students who highly participate in the arts have better performances on standardized achievement tests than students who do not. Thinking and social development _ Thinking: imagination, inventiveness, creativity, and problem-solving skills ( In a research study of a high school, “those who studied dance scored higher than nondancers on measures of creative thinking, especially in the categories of fluency, originality and abstract thought”.
Even in the young grades, teachers need to relate the content in which they are teaching in every way possible. Authentic instruction is a wonderful strategy to use in the classroom, to show students the importance of the content at hand. Along with authentic instruction, teachers can use various strategies to help the students organize their thoughts and the information they have read. Authentic instruction is often defined by teachers and preservice teachers as being interesting, motivating, fun, relevant topics (Duke, Gates, Hall, Tower, 345). Simply this is a
Damodharan further asserted that any communication that serves this purpose without destroying the objective could be considered innovative. Bradshaw and Lowenstein (2011) echoed this and argued that innovative methods are ones that by design engages and challenges students resulting in greater student interest, a deeper level of understanding and /or a lasting change in the student. It is an approach to teaching and learning that results in a much enhanced, even transformative, educational experience for students. Furthermore, the use of innovative methods has the potential not only to improve education but also to empower people, strengthen governance and galvanize the effort to achieve the human development goal of the country (Damodharan, 2012). This paper purports to discuss Jigsaw as an innovative method of teaching.