Active Learning

Just as it says, active learning.  One of the best ways for students to learn is the classroom is to get up and physically do something that is related to the subject.  An example given today in class was talking about math, you can go outside and measure shadows of trees and then measure your height.  This will let the students get out of the classroom, actively measure two things, then do the computations of predicting the tree height later in the classroom.  In the last part of class we were given an example of one of the many ways to make a lesson plan.  Every school has a curriculum and as educators we have to teach lessons organized on paper sometimes.  Lastly as time was running out in class, we discussed was of assessing students progress in class.  I suggested quizzing or asking questions at the end of class, but there are many ways of doing this.  One way, which is how we will be assessed in this class, is using class participation and projects grade us.