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BIG IDEAS:" IMPORTANT ISSUE TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING
OF OUR PLANS AND SYLLABI"
I feel highly convinced that it is relevant to establish a set of clear and appropriate ideas
when planning, teaching and assessing in order to make our students think deeply ,and as
teachers become more analytical about our learners' goals.
Moreover, if we focus our attention on learning priorities, our contents must contain not only big ideas
but also core tasks with the purpose of exploring and transferring ideas.
These tasks must also encourage our learners to discuss, reflect, research and debate instead of
memorizing concepts and passing tests to recall the information. Equally important is that our students
must be involved in the practice, coaching and feedback of these essential ideas to become more meaningful.
In this way, students can make sense of their learning and apply these ideas, topics, questions to real life
situations.
Apart from this, if our students interact with techniques for the sake of modeling, guided practice and feedback,
we will improve the productive skills. For example, when students have to do a power point presentation.
Therefore, we as educators, must foster these key elements such as "big ideas, core tasks, understandings. essential
ideas, knowledge and skills so that we can help our learners to get an effective learning.
Despite being a hard task, we are aware that clear, consistent and coherent educational goal are essentially meaningful.
I agree that education should be meaningful for both, teachers and students. We can repeat contents and contents like parrots and our students do the same but learning and acquisition never happen.
ResponderEliminarTotally agree!
ResponderEliminarIncluding and learning how to work around big ideas and goals would make teaching meaningfuñ for both students and teacher since neither are used to working following that pattern
Absolutely,
ResponderEliminarIf our lessons are not meaningful for us and our students, it's quiete unlikely that successful learning takes place.
Absolutely agree! Lessons need to have a meaning for all the members who take place in a learning environment, say teachers and of course students. They are the key of our lessons.
ResponderEliminarMost of us are aware of the importance of meaningful tasks and how these tasks will help students transfer the new knowledge, but I am not quite sure if our institutions are.
ResponderEliminarI agree, lessons need to have purpose, whay is this important? is this really important for my students? do I feel that my lesson is going to have a impact in my students?
ResponderEliminarIn order to get meaningful learning, we need first, think about we are planning to teach, and how are we planning to do it. If we don't feel motivated or engaged with our teaching practice, students will never feel motivated to learn.
I cannot agree more on what you wrote about contents.What is the aim of giving our students lots of exercises, activities and tasks that are not meaningful? The tasks given to our students must be core tasks with a clear purpose that involve them in their own learning process.
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