Ideas on Best Practices
February6
| Best Practice Elements | My Rationale |
| Collaboration | It allows students to build knowledge in groups rather than by themselves. This can help students develop make connections that they did not make themselves. |
| Hands-on Activities | These let students build there own experiences, which then can be drawn from for later exercises. |
| Inquiry based | Allows for students to develop there own ideas, which than are modified by the teachers to more accurate. Yet, it keeps students fascinated by the subject. |
| Understand Student Background | It is important to know your students, if they have a child at home or have a job to take care of their family they are not likely to do homework for your class. |
| Appropriate Testing/ Assessment | If assessment is not valid to students, then you set up a class for failure. |
| Cover what the students absolutely need to know | A lot of what are in the standards now, is not things that we need to know for everyday life. For instance, nuclear fission is not often a survival skill. Nor will knowing about it save you from a ruptured core in your vicinity. |
| Relate Experiences | Topics need to relate to the students to gain the interest and make students want to gain the knowledge. |
| Scaffold knowledge | Schools should scaffold the information that they share that way there is a flow that allows students to build paths. Instead of random spots of information. |
| Inspire Interest | It often falls to the teacher to be able to inspire students to want to learn. If you can’t come up with creative ways to educate students, you most likely will have lessened results. |