The Blogush challenge is to take one of a number of sentences, ponder and blog it.
If given a choice, would students choose to come to your class?
I am working towards giving students that choice. As adult learners, they are able to choose.
When I first started teaching, I demanded students attend. I worked hard to make the classes valuable and managed to pack in a lot of theory, activities, feedback and stuff. After five years, I am wanting to be more flexible. I want them to have more control over their learning decisions.
So really, I want students to have that choice.
I want to provide them with resources so a missed class is not a missed learning opportunity. For resources to be available so they can read up before class, or follow their interests after the class.
To this end, I am pondering, reading, getting excited, moving forward, cold feet, standing still. Every time I feel as though I know where to start, it all becomes too hard and I leap down that road, too far and too fast.
I need to restrain myself. Either I need to develop a plan where I know what to fill in with elearning opportunities, or I need to choose an elearning tool and work with that over the next semester.
Hi Helen–commented to your comment on my blog:
“Love the idea for providing resources so they can “follow their interests after class.” When teachers select sources to use in class they inevitably narrow it down to a few. Would be neat to have sources that did not make the cut available for any kid who would want to keep going with the topic after class.”
Made me think about how kids might not choose to come to a class, but would be happy to attend virtually.