Brains-on Learning
My teaching philosophy has evolved over the years I have spent in the classroom as I have come to better know students and how they learn. Though it has evolved it has always centered around a few key facets. I have always held to the belief that teaching should start with the standards and students should have high expectations set before them. I also believe in using inquiry and hands-on activities to make the classroom more student-centered. I have also always tried to incorporate as much technology into my classroom as possible. This of course reached an all time high during COVID when 90% of my students were at home. J. Handler (2015) asks several thought provoking questions during his TED talk on technology in education, the first being Should classrooms today be the same as they were when we went to school? This straight row, facing forward classroom is the one I attempt to avoid. To get students engaged in brains-on learning they need to be interacting with the mate...