Engaging The Learner

Engaging the learner is one of the most important things. How can you expect children to learn if they aren't engaged? If you can't keep their attention, then their mind will start to wonder, they may start talking with a partner, coloring, etc. It is important to know your students and how they learn. Knowing what interests your students is an advantage, so that you can incorporate that into your lessons.

Collaboration

Collaboration has a huge impact on the way you teach and the way students will learn. For example, collaboration among professionals can create the most powerful lessons; which should be one of your many goals as a teacher. Let's be honest, it all starts with your creation of the lesson plan. In addition, it is also important to have your students collaborate together and learn to work with different personalities.

Assessment

To be honest, I did not include much about assessments in my course outline because that is basically a given. Of course you're going to test students on the material that they just learned. Otherwise, it wouldn't be important enough to teach. However, many objectives are listed on my course outline because I would like to display those objectives on the board for my students to see every day. When I was in elementary and high school, I felt as though the objectives gave purpose to the subject because it told me what I would be learning.