Get Active

Think back to when you were in elementary school. Sitting down for hours, listening to the teacher give the lesson or doing classwork and assignments. Was that fun? Did you enjoy just sitting for long periods of time? Of course not! You were a kid. You wanted to be up and running around, having fun. No one likes to be glued to their chair all day long. Students in the classroom should have the opportunity to get up from their seats and be able to move around and still be able to learn something new. When students get to move and do something physically they learn and remember things better as to just sitting at their desks. It's important to incorporate this into some of the activities we do with our students. Come up with learning activities that give them a chance to get all their wiggles out and still get something valuable out of the lesson activity.

It Starts With You

I often hear teachers complain that their students don't pay attention or participate in class. They say that the children don't care about education or that they are too lazy to do the work or learn the material. Teachers say that the students attitude's towards learning and doing work is a negative attitude, they show no interest in what is being taught. One might say that the students are bored. So my question is, what are we as teachers doing wrong? As a teacher it's our responsibility to try to make what we are trying to teach fun and interesting. Sometimes there will be subjects that are awfully boring, but the attitude of the teacher should be uplifting. We need to be engaging and grab the students attention. If students see that you, as the teacher, are bored and not excited about the lesson, they're going to feel like it's something they don't need to learn. It all starts with us the teachers.

My First Blog

I've never had a blog before and I'm not the best writer, so this is going to be a very new and challenging experience for me. Let me tell you a little about myself. My name is Arisbe Jacquez and my major is Elementary Education. Growing up my mom, being a teacher, always had me and my sisters help her out in the classroom or at church with the children. Ever since then I loved to work and be around children. In the back of my mind I thought about becoming a teacher, but it wasn't until second semester my freshmen year at SWAU that I decided to pursue it. I don't regret changing my major. It's a bit nerve-racking to think I will be "in charge" of what and how my students learn. That's why I chose this topic, Engaging Students in Learning Activities. So it can be useful for me and other future teachers.