3476. Learning about Our Students from Writing
Although our
students may be using their iPads, we teachers should also teach them to write
manually.
If their notebooks are neat, that will for sure help them greatly to
study, work, and learn. When a kid or an adult writes nice, clear and neat,
they have clear ideas in their minds. Or likely so. They, in a word, have
mental hygiene. Or likely so.
Thus we could, with their permission or their parents’,
or with both, have a look at their notebooks. Firstly we'll have told them we're going to pick their notebooks. We’ll learn a lot from that
written work about our dear students.
If they utilize books also, we could teach
them how to underline important terms or ideas – not too much underlining,
because at first they hardly recognize what is important or they think all is
important: their minds are maturing. But with some practice with the whole
class we can efficiently teach them what the main points are.
And that in the
classroom with the whole class, by discussing with them about what the main
important ideas are. Also by telling them explicitly about those key points on
a text.
We can think they’re not understanding us teachers, but they’re like
sponges: they are open to learn from their teachers, if they’re young kids, and
if teens and if we love them with real benevolence love, they may be rather
open to learn from their teachers, because they do know we want the best for
them, although they may be or may look rebellious.
Remember: love of benevolence:
to seek what’s good to them, as Aristotle put it. Oh, as well we can help them
find and underline the main ideas from a text if they use tablets, of course. Have
a nice week. / Photo from: dillydallyfarmingdale com
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