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What practices do you currently use in your classroom to help your students learn concepts on a deeper level? Do you feel these are effective? Why or why not?
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To help my students learn on a deeper level, I relate the concept to real life or their personal experiences. Also, I ask questions that require students to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information.
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In my music class, I try to engage the children by asking them to relate the concept of the topic we just learnt to real life situations. For example, If they’ve learnt about the orchestra, knowing fully well that the orchestra is the combination of different musical instruments playing together at the same time to make beautiful music. They are asked how that is compared to the world we live in today. That’s the point they all start to think at a deeper level. One of the responses I got was that, irrespective of our backgrounds, when we work together, we achieve great things.
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Bringing the concept into real life. Relating it to what is happening around us and also letting students do research on the concept.
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I teach kindergartners and a popular practice is introducing units with a question or activity hook. An example will be switching off the light while introducing a “sequence of events” reading class. I’ll go back to the creation story and show them why light had to be created before anything. I’ll integrate this to the lesson by explaining to them that God demonstrated order at creation and expects us to also turn/read book pages for us to be successful readers.
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Most cases I use pictures, and asked students to predict, observe and explain from scriptural views. Yes, most times it gives room for logically argument and analysis.