It’s great if you can make your classroom material relevant to your students’ worlds, but what if you could also make your students’ worlds relevant to your classroom? It’s amazing to discover the diversity of students’ habits of learning about the world around them. Some pick up a newspaper each day, others listen to their parents’ conversations about the news, some hear tid bits of news on the radio during their commute to school, and others, when told about a recent occurrence, respond with a quizzical look and reply, “Oh really? I had no idea.”
Encourage your students to be students of the world by announcing that at the beginning of each class (or every Friday, or at the end of each class, or every Monday and Friday…whatever works for you) the class will have an opportunity to share current events they hear about. This will give you great insight into how students get their news, what they care about and how they react to various topics in the news. You might even be surprised by how often they pick up on something that directly applies to your course!
Classroom Engagement for July 31, 2008
Encourage your students to be students of the world by announcing that at the beginning of each class (or every Friday, or at the end of each class, or every Monday and Friday…whatever works for you) the class will have an opportunity to share current events they hear about. This will give you great insight into how students get their news, what they care about and how they react to various topics in the news. You might even be surprised by how often they pick up on something that directly applies to your course!
Classroom Engagement for July 31, 2008
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