Teaching WITH not TO

I’ve really enjoyed the activities the groups have had us do. I would like to take these ideas and format them to fit each class individually when I am finally a teacher. I am very interested in not “teaching” to our students, but rather including them to take agency and ownership of their own education with my assistance. I guess you can say I’d like to “teach with” my students. I fully believe that they will teach me just as much as I will teach them. I think they need to be participants in their own education and I’m not seeing that this is happening for the most part. Of course, I may be idealizing my future as a teacher, but I’ll find out once I get there.

One activity I really enjoyed was the movie questions which earned one a word. I think this is a great way to get the students involved in learning grammar. The one thing I would add would be punctuation marks. Punctuation is something that is very confusing to people, young and old.

I plan to bookmark the sites this class has created so that I may reference them in the future.