Learning Experience
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Learning Objectives:
‘Falling Asleep’ & ‘Wide Awakeness’
Responsibility: a duty or obligation for which a person is held accountable
(newworldencyclopedia.org)
Think about a time when you were faced with peer pressure. What were the consequences (positive or negative) you weighed? How did you react? What did you do?
“…people are only awake enough for physical labor and not intellectual exertion. When you are awake, you can think deeper and find the truth within you” (Brinker)
How to Live:
School Hierarchy in classrooms
Discussion
What Experience do you have being in a classroom where you felt you needed to be obedient and follow others ?
Did you feel motivation and excitement about that class or were you anxious about it ?
How do you think this affected your engagement and overall learning in the class?
The Importance of Engagement and Learning
Engagement promotes active participation from students which allows them to drive their own learning and take ownership which leads to them having a much deeper and more meaningful connection to the material they are learning.
Active participation
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This encourages students to question different things, be thinking “outside of the box” and reflect on not only their own but classmates ideas and thoughts. This allows individuals to create a much deeper understanding of the world around them.
Critical Thinking and Reflection
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Greene talk about how engagement supports intellectual development but also social and emotional growth within students. By being actively engaged this allows students to create and develop connections with not only other students but also teachers.
Encourages Growth
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How Should Students Growth be Tested?
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Are standard tests for the teacher or the student?
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Is success on homework a good indicator of learning?
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What is the best way to assess student learning?
Wide Awakeness and Moral Life —
Maxine Green
The author presents the reader with the issue of “falling asleep” in classrooms and schools.
Passive and routine thinking in classrooms
Problem 1
Lack of Moral Engagement and separation of school and life
Problem 2
Problem 3
Lack of communal responsibility
How do we as teachers combat these issues and encourage our students to be “wide awake”?
Encouraging reflection and asking students to take control of their learning, allow for the most imagination and free choice as possible.
Solution 1
Teachers must Identify themselves as moral-beings and stick by their values.
Solution 2
Create collaborative spaces where students can rely on each other and share responsibility.
Solution 3
Write one thing you can do as an educator in order to have wide-awake students and combat falling asleep.
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