Module 1 Activity 1

The most powerful lessons that I learnt during this activity:

During this activity I was reminded in the readings about how students learn and that we as teachers need to be constantly thinking of ways to meet our students’ needs and how to keep them motivated. I was also reminded that we are only facilitators/guides; our students are not empty vessels waiting to be filled.

From going through the comments section of the group blog I have realized that quite a number of teachers have been motivated and influenced by the change in students behaviours towards learning based on that change in methodology/pedagogical approaches that was implemented.

Children are our finest teachers. They already know how to grow, how to develop, how to learn, how to expand and discover, how to feel, laugh, cry and get mad, what is right for them and what is not right for them, what they need. They already know how to love and be joyful and live life to its fullest. To work and be strong and full of energy. All they need is the space to do it.

Very interesting paragraph, tells us that students are not as empty as we think they are. Given the right guide we can bring out the knowledge in them and help them improve on what they already know. We simply need to give them the chance express what they know.