Start designing class activities by creating goals for what the students should learn from a particular activity. Ask yourself, “why would kids need to know this?”
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- This helps ensure that projects motivate students’ interests and build important skills.
- This also helps to keep the course focused, and prevents doing activities just because they’re “cool.”
- Clear goals will also help to keep all students on the same page with progression through the material.
- Create a "need to know."
- Make a KWL Chart: This is a table where your students will fill in their thoughts to reflect on past and future learning, according to the following criteria:
- What they know.
- What they want to know.
- What they have learned.
- How they can learn more.
- Fill out this table on your own first to make sure the activity falls under the category of something students need to know.
- Make a KWL Chart: This is a table where your students will fill in their thoughts to reflect on past and future learning, according to the following criteria: