- This statement could be true because when the teacher comes up with the lessons and does all the planning he or she knows exactly what should happen and if that doesn't happen he or she would know what to do to get it back on track. That is the easy part. But when the teacher hands the planning and control over to the students there is no telling where that lesson could go. The teacher would almost have to come up with something on the spot to teach to the kids. You could do this productively though by possibly scaffolding this way of learning. Start the kids off with just one thing they are in control of and as they get used to this give them more and more control over what is being taught. You could say to your students that they need to learn about the Civil War and ask them how they would like to go about doing that. Possibly give them examples of things they could do and then help them do what they picked and still get out of the project what they needed to get out of it.
- I was in a kindergarten classroom and honestly most of everything was controlled by the teacher. The students would do morning work and sometimes they would have to draw on their paper. This they had creative control over. There are also times when the students were able to add their own describing word to a sentence the teacher came up with. But again not too many things were really centered around the students getting to choose what they did.
- I feel that this can take away from the children being motivated to learn because they know the teacher will tell them what they are to be doing. I feel that if these students were told that they were aloud to come up with their own project or activity they would not really know what to do and would expect the teacher to just jump in and tell them what to do. In this way I can see students not really wanting to learn because they know the teacher will just tell them what to do. They know the teacher will always be there to tell them what the next step is.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Teacher controlled vs. student centered classrooms (Prompt 2)
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I agree, I think that motivation comes a lot of from how creative students can be and use their innovative skills do succeed on their own rather than be instructed every second of every day. If students expect their teachers to give them instructions, then their motivation to learn and participate will decrease. Students should not expect things, they should be surprised if they are being teacher instructed or student centered.
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