Interactive learning!
Kahoot Fridays – I created kahoot Fridays to get the students excited and engaged on Friday afternoons in the subject matter. It was a great assessment tool and worked for review. Students could work collaboratively or individually if they wanted. It helped students prepare for tests or refresh material before the weekend. There were prizes too!
Interactive learning has become of my pedagogy – using technology to integrate learning and get students engaged has been a great tool for success.
To find out more about kahoots visit: www.kahoot.it
My Pedagogical Creed
“The highest result of Education is tolerance”-Helen Keller
I was raised in a family which taught honesty, integrity and hard work as underlying and establishing principles. There is much discussion towards the necessary formation of the democratic citizen, and to teach individuals how to be aware, critical thinkers. What does this look like? Why is this important? The situation of our education system currently is displaying a direct example of the importance of this notion.
I believe that education happens inside and outside of the school, and students are thus immersed in information outside of the curriculum.
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life”. -John Lennon
Teaching should emphasize the moral, ethical, and democratic growth of students. This will be a better pathway to success.
Education is a life long journey, a pursuit of knowledge which is constantly changing. School is an experience that ends for most people, whereas education continues, and learning encompasses tolerance, and empathy. These values are one of the highest degrees of education because they incorporate history as a life lesson, they choose to overlook prejudices, discrimination, and stereotypes to a person’s content, and they encourage the practice of peaceful compromise.
Dewey describes “…stimulated to act as a member of unity, to emerge from his original narrowness of action and feeling, and to conceive of himself from the standpoint of the welfare of the group to which he belongs”