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Explain, in your own words, what “processing activities” are and how they contribute to a coherent curriculum.
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Processing activities are activities that help students to interact with and gain a deeper understanding into what they’ve read. It helps them to solidify their comprehension and internalize/apply what they’ve learned.
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Processing activities are those activities that help students review /reflect on what they have learned, to search the scriptures and see where it is consistent with God’s Word, and to ask questions about the topic or to discuss it more in depth (using new knowledge gained).
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Processing activities are marination time to contemplate what has been taught, what they have interacted with, and how it relates to their lives and to God’s word.
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Is to give the students time to reflect on learning and questions.
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Last year I was a first year teacher. I did many processing activities. Matter of fact, on our first teachers workday after school started one of the first things I said was that I will definitely do things different next year.
One thing I really had to learn is that no all kids are the kind of kid I was. I wanted to learn. I wanted to have homework. I wanted to go as far in the book as I could. Not all students are like that. And more importantly, not all parents want their student to be like that. There are many parents that are fine with grades that are just high enough to keep their child in athletics.
So I had to reevaluate and find things that made the kids get excited about learning and take learning beyond lectures and textbooks. So I started integrating group activities. I knew I had made the right move when I heard a student say, “Wow, I feel like I learned so much more in this chapter.”