“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ”
by John Lubbock
My belief about learning is that we all learn in different ways so as teachers, we must bear this in mind in order to cater for our students’ different needs. Now, if we draw a comparison between the past and this present reality we have, it is more than clear that our students learn in a total different way and teachers have to consider this because we tend to teach as we were taught or it happens that our teaching style reflects our learning style thus we forget about our students and what they need to learn best.
Of course this is not an easy task since things have changed dramatically, technology has had a huge impact on the way our students learn nowadays, and we as teachers, cannot turn a blind eye to that.
I also agree with the fact that it is mostly in noisy classrooms where students learn best, but will our administrators accept it? It is hard to find heads that totally support the way you teach, which means that we are facing a huge challenge. Not only do we have to adapt to the new technology and all the changes it has brought, but also we have to change some people’s minds and make them understand that our students need to learn in different ways.
The following is a video that many of us have shared but it’s worth watching many times:
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