Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Current Events and Real-Life Projects
Current Events is a hot topic for most adults, they want to know what is happening daily in the news. However, middle school students do not seem to be as interested and it is hard to get them to watch the news or listen to the radio to become informed on the issues. However some teachers have taken such issues as the oil-well explosion and the Chilean mine collapse and created real-world projects for students to complete, even though there is no text to teach the material. They are taking the headlines and putting their students in the places of these people and coming up with wasys to make it relevant to their lives and how they would handle the situation. Wouldn't this type of assingment gets students more enganged and demonstrate their knowledge better than normal day-to-day work. Yes this type of assingment takes a lot more work for the teacher, but it is not because of us we choose this profession, it is for the students and ways we can help them learn. Next time you are planning an activity think about the students and how you could relate the activity to their lives.
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I hate to say it, but I am very much like these middle schoolers you are talking about! I am never watching the news or reading a paper. I am terrible about being "up" on current events. I was just talking about this with a colleague and we were saying how people will say, "Did you hear about such and such?" and we will be so behind on the news! I think current events are important! What do you think about doing something like this with younger students? Is it possible?
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