Early on in my young teaching career I felt myself as just a follower with my other teachers in my grade level. Being young I did not feel like I could speak up and show my creativity in the classroom. We were doing choral reading, looking at english books and doing the problems, and then always doing worksheets. We would have a worksheet for every single thing. Classroom was quiet and heads were always down and that in turn caused some behavioral problems because they never had a release to show what they knew.
Within the last several years I started pushing the envelope of what I was doing in my classroom to allow my students to use those creative juices. I had to find myself and model for them its okay to be creative and think outside the box. This was new to them because it was not familiar to them what school was supposed to be according to society.
I was finding myself taking things and creatively changing them to make them work for my classroom. The validation from my students would keep pushing me to be more creative and able to stretch their thinking. This lesson being a hyperdoc really pushed me to be creative and think of what the end goal was for my students. Once I had the end goal of building the lesson for their engagement and technology the fun part started seeing how I could challenge their thinking.
The effectiveness of this lesson for my students was fabulous. They were able to work solo, in partners, or collaboratively with other peers. They were so immersed in their work that it flowed over into homework each night when it wasn’t even required. This lesson was something new and fresh and they craved this style of learning. It allowed for the students to work at their own pace while having their neighbors working on a completely different part of the assignment. Some teachers would have a hard time with this type of lesson because they would feel like there is zero control. When in reality there is total control of what the students are doing and completing. Before the students were even done completing this lesson, I was already coming up with another lesson similar to this style because I could see my students were flourishing in this style of teaching and learning!
Within the last several years I started pushing the envelope of what I was doing in my classroom to allow my students to use those creative juices. I had to find myself and model for them its okay to be creative and think outside the box. This was new to them because it was not familiar to them what school was supposed to be according to society.
I was finding myself taking things and creatively changing them to make them work for my classroom. The validation from my students would keep pushing me to be more creative and able to stretch their thinking. This lesson being a hyperdoc really pushed me to be creative and think of what the end goal was for my students. Once I had the end goal of building the lesson for their engagement and technology the fun part started seeing how I could challenge their thinking.
The effectiveness of this lesson for my students was fabulous. They were able to work solo, in partners, or collaboratively with other peers. They were so immersed in their work that it flowed over into homework each night when it wasn’t even required. This lesson was something new and fresh and they craved this style of learning. It allowed for the students to work at their own pace while having their neighbors working on a completely different part of the assignment. Some teachers would have a hard time with this type of lesson because they would feel like there is zero control. When in reality there is total control of what the students are doing and completing. Before the students were even done completing this lesson, I was already coming up with another lesson similar to this style because I could see my students were flourishing in this style of teaching and learning!