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The role of educators is to provide meaningful learning experiences for students, to help them develop into lifelong learners and instill in them the non-cognitive skills required for academic excellence and development into productive members of their society.
The role of educators is not simply to communicate the ideas of their content area to their students but to do so in a way that keeps them actively engaged and interested. This provides students with a meaningful learning experience. Learning environments that do not foster active student engagement often are those that result in students feeling a “disconnect”. Research has shown that activities that students are more fond of and can relate to result in higher student learning and academic development. We as educators need to get students excited about what they are learning and that they all have the potential to succeed academically. This is especially important in an age where people are vastly dependent on technology. The advancement of technology has encouraged teachers to devise new ways of differentiating their instruction.
I like how he defines his values and it seems without doing his values he would not be at ease with himself and that just brings me to think what are our values and are we able to keep them without compromising them in this field?
“There’s a disconnect in a lot of classrooms between what kids really like to do and what they’re being asked to do in the classroom.” I feel like this is improving, but the disconnect definitely remains.
“There are no failures in the world of cultures. Everybody has an area of expertise….. it’s only in school where we separate kids into success and failure”
Very thought provoking! This is real and sadly true.
Ernest Morell asks:
1)How do we get kids excited about learning?
2)How do we develop literary identities? How do we get kids to see the brilliance that they have?
3) How do we make education more digitally relevant?
As an educator, I do believe that all three of these anchoring questions are very important and relevant in leading our teaching practice. However, creating excitement about something the students are about to learn is incredibly important because it gets students to “buy into” the lesson intially and creates a “buzz” around the subject at hand. But, in order to help boost a student’s academic self esteem- it is equally important for them to recognize their own brilliance within a subject matter. More often than not, many students loose interest and/ or give up because of they believe that they simply can not complete certain assignments because it may seem too challenging or they are just simply not invested in it because they may believe they are not intelligent or capable enough to complete certain activities within a lesson.
i really agree with this point Mr. Morell makes, if the students have the ability to do well they will do well. If they are able to understand something and express it they will do so but it depends on how as teachers or anyone makes them feel. This piggy back on how is the classroom built? Is it student center or teacher center? Does it share their interest or teacher’s interest and how curriculum should be taught is the norm in the class. As a future i really need to work on that and get myself on board with creating lesson that tallies more to students interest than how i want to do so.
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As an educator, of the three anchoring questions I feel that finding ways to get students excited about learning is most important. Once you find the motivating factor the students then become the teacher because now learning is not a “chore”. I agree with Mr. Morrell that “there is a disconnect in the classroom between what kids really like to do and what they’re being asked to do….” Incorporating children’s interests into the curriculum is that motivating factor that makes students want to learn. And it also makes learning stress-free because they are doing something that they like.
I believe in today’s currently climent a very important question is how to make education more digitally relevant to make online learning more engaging and interesting to children. I think that the most overall important question is how to make learning more excited for children for them to be motivated to make a difference in their world.
I feel how to get kids excited about school is the most important question for an educator
I believe, especially in this age now and this pandemic, the most important question to think about is how we can make education more digitally relevant. This is one of the “BURNING QUESTIONS” I had brainstormed and am grateful to see it being asked by other people as well!. Engaging young people is also an important factor in getting them to connect to the content that is being taught, but one that needs to be reviewed even more so now that most of their learning is now done remotely.
Children are meant to explore and move around, so keeping their interests long enough for them to sit down and be engaged digitally for extended periods is a challenge. One of my focus as a future teacher would be how to transcribe curriculum to be multimodal and incorporate the many strands of media. As Ernest Morrell said, students have fun exploring and using different technologies. That is why it is important that we have to take them seriously and pay attention to them and what they have to offer.
Morrell’s three anchoring quesions are:
1. How do we get student’s excited about learning?
2. How do we develop academic and literary identities?
3.How do we make education more digitally relevant?
My most important question as an educator is question number one because, in general, you have to enjoy something in order to be passionate about it. I want my students to be passionate about learning. When you are passionate about something you are interested in learning about it and practicing it. You are also more likely to understand what it is and what it entails versus just memorizing the information. By being passionate about learning my students will enjoy completing academic tasks instead of dreading them.
Morrell’s three anchoring questions:
1) How do we get kids excited about learning?
2) How do we develop these academic, literate, or intellectual identities?
3) How do we make education more digitally relevant?
As an educator, I believe the most important question is how to get students excited about learning. If we are not able to attain this motivation in a classroom it will be difficult to promote meaningful learning.
The three questions he mentioned was
1. How do we get students’ to be excited about learning?
2.How do we develop these academic or literary intellectual identity?
3. How do we make education digitally more relevant?
The most important for me s an educator is question number 2, this is because i feel as a teacher we need to acknowledge the students and let them know they are capable to do so much more. I want to assist my students in arriving at an area where they are confident and with minimal instruction they can get the task done or better yet use their creativity to complete certain task. I would like my students to be able to develop this sense of independence in their studies and feel like they have a say so in their learning; of course as a teacher i will always be there to assist but i want them to have the initiative and also believe in themselves and see themselves for their skills and all.
They all go about this in different ways engaging with their peers, through different forms whether its interviews or online readings and blogs. Where they eventually see that they can make a difference in their lives and others today and not down the line.
Enrnest Morrell and IUME are engaging students through a youth research project, this allows the students to find answers to the questions they identify with. Ernest Morrell speaks about empowering students to understand that they bring their own set of capabilities into the classroom.
I really like it because it looks at all the reading about them and trying to collect information to try to change the world for them and in their c=school. The students find a voice and can see themselves as important to changing the world. I really like the fact it gives them hope.
Have kids involved in youth participatory research- young people asking a question from a problem they identify and figuring out what kind of info they need in figuring out that problem.
I like how thy engage in asking students questions that makes them feel their participation/ voice matters. For example, they ask if they could change the world what is one thing they can change? and this is one of the questions he would ask and ask them to think how does it relate to what they are doing at the moment with literacy.
This is good practice because it does not only have them participate but ask to critical think.
The disposition and sense of self empowerments to help earn more skills and do well in their future classes and also in the world.
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