1. Provide choices: Teachers in the
real world recognize that although personalization has the potential to improve
learning, our first job in applying any approach is to engage students in the
learning process.... It’s about helping students find their spark and make
their own fire.
2. Offer a challenge: Students persevere when an
assignment is not only interesting, but intellectually demanding. When John
Hattie lists factors that relate to student achievement, he indicates the
importance of ensuring that each assignment has the optimal level of
challenge—not too hard, not too easy—because “the effect size of this so-called
‘Goldilocks’ level of challenge... nearly doubles the speed of learning.
3. Tell them why: Research has shown that
people do better at a task—whether that task is spelling, hitting a curveball,
or playing the viola—if they know why they’re doing it in the first place.
School is often all about how—here’s how you do a quadratic equation, here’s
how you write a five-paragraph essay, here’s how you do a paper chromatography
experiment in chemistry. The fact is, we often give short shrift to why.
From: Edutopia
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