{"id":57,"date":"2016-01-29T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itec-ubc.ca\/wordpress\/mander\/?p=57"},"modified":"2016-03-14T21:52:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T04:52:37","slug":"making-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/2016\/01\/29\/making-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Connections!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Through my research thus far, I have been introduced to many methods and techniques that aim to ensure all students are motivated and engaged with the learning material. In my own teaching, I have been trying to make connections so that students are able to perceive activities as being meaningful. This technique leads to rich discussions where most students contribute in a purposeful way. They are able to provide insight and add comments to shape an important and meaningful discussion. I have also used the think-pair-share technique but on one occasion, gave students too much time to pair up which led to conversations about other irrelevant topics. Through discussions with teachers, I have come to realize that the &#8220;sharing&#8221; aspect is the most important so that teachers are able to assess their students&#8217; level of understanding. Offering more time for sharing ideas and thoughts gives all students, including the quieter ones, the opportunity to engage in classroom discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through my research thus far, I have been introduced to many methods and techniques that aim to ensure all students are motivated and engaged with the learning material. In my own teaching, I have been trying to make connections so that students are able to perceive activities as being meaningful. This technique leads to rich &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/2016\/01\/29\/making-connections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Connections!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2955,716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inquiry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashm24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}