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What they do is more important than what we teach.

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What they do is more important than what we teach.

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Teaching with a more connected, real world, big idea way and asking the students to engage with the ideas instead of just learning what we say is critical.  They want to have some choice and feel like they are making the connections in an important way.  Relevance is not just helpful, it is CRITICAL.

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The article focuses on the importance of providing different learning opportunities and taking risks with different lessons to help students engage more in your courses.

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I would love to show students before they start studying language why it is important and relevant to their lives. It may make the hard part of language more engaging because they see the end result.

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I would love to show students before they start studying language why it is important and relevant to their lives. It may make the hard part of language more engaging because they see the end result.

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I wonder if my high ability students resent the extra time I am required to give to those with lower skills. Do I depend on them too much to help carry students along?

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This relates to my life because I do sometimes use the phrase, I know you don’t know what you are doing right now, but when we do this again, you will.

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The basic gist is that doing “the basics” for any given concept before you can achieve a deeper understanding may be a myth and that students can be given the end product to extrapolate meaning before the process of working on the finer points

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This relates to my life because of my subject area of culinary arts. I have students that missed out on hands-on labs in our entry level culinary course during the pandemic. Some are now in an advanced culinary course and have zero experience with application. It is been a true learning experience for all of us. We can’t leave them behind.

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The basic gist is students sometimes learn more when they start with an experience where they don’t know anything.

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This makes me think about how a lot of the official D87 curriculum is still focused on dry basic facts. 

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This makes me think about how a lot of the official D87 curriculum is still focused on dry basic facts. 

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I do notice when I break from the “normal” teaching strategies, my struggling students do show greater success.

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Teaching just the basics might sound good in theory, but in reality just teaches students to follow directions

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What jumped out at me was at the end when they said white students are taught to think and black students are taught to listen to authority

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The basic first approach really made me think about a previous PD session that suggested starting with what you normally do for end of unit activities first.

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In a nutshell it says that kids should not be held back for lack of basic skills. It’s ok to dive deep early into new learning.

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How do we teach all students to challenge thinking, regardless of class/age “level”?

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The little league example really helped me understand the idea of “playing the whole game”

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It really helped me understand why it is fair and equitable to have kids go all in even when they are not ready. It may be motivating although challenging.

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Less advantaged students, BIPOC are being taught to follow directions, more privileged taught to challenge authority