Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Be Brave Be Creative and Don't forget to Smile

MINDFULNESS

What a big word... I would like us to just read it again... MINDFULNESS 
take in the meaning of the word

" a state of active, open attention on the present " OR 
" living in the moment and awakening to experience " 

Now that is done i can assume everyone will agree on the fact that its a key element to have in our modern day classroom. When we have this present in our classroom it opens up a numerous amount of oppertunities and doors for both the students and teachers
Having mindfulness we as teachers can have become more accessable and available to students 
When being mindfull we take into concideration we have losts of different students infront of you and that you need to create a platform for open communication where worries concerns and uncertainties can be heard. This can be both way the commnication. While communicating we as teachers should enable the students reading and writing skills. We as teachers should have empathy for our students and also understand them individually and they must also understand you as teacher from the start what you expect of them and they of you in return and that you dont stand bullying and harrassment of any degree and if the student ought to be mindfull they wont be bullying other fellow students but insteand promote social bonding among another.

When being mindful all of the above bold and underlined statements will be achieved or ticked of when a check list is checked. To establish and effective teaching environment in classroom we must be mindful about the students social, academic and behavioral background. 

Positive home and school relationships will envolve when both student and teachers are mindful and awakens the now and present. To help with teaching in a mindfulness environment we can also make use of teaching strategies such as vygotksy's social constructivism and the classical conditioning behaviorist theory

So to conclude if you as teacher establish mndfulness in you classroom in visa versa direction and have all the bold and underlined aspects in place you and you student will get to your longed Lesson outcomes

Be brave
Be creative 
And dont forget to smile 

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

spice things up 🔥

Social media is becomming a great ideal for teaching in the 21st centuary 
Therefore it will be a good idea to start implementing it in your classroom everyday
Yes there are a few concerns about safety ect
But isnt there a lot of concerns in life as whole 

As i see it, it is how you see it or in this case use it and make the best of what you have within the safety boundaries away from evil and hackers and bad person outthere. We live in a world today where if youre going to wonder what is the whole time youll forget how to live life and enjoy it.

So implementing social media in classrooms is perfect and just another way to spice up your teaching ability and to make boring work more interesting. 

I would definitely as a teacher use remind in my classroom to cut out the excuse that the learner forgot to do the math sum of physics homework. 
And as i started blogging this year initially i thought oh boy how boring and how am i ever going to be able to do this... And now i can say i quite frankly enjoy this. So in my math and physics class i will use a blog so that each child can send or blog what they thought about certain elements in class and questions they have and inthe process everyone in class can see so the interaction relationship among another will become better and i will also be able to see what they think and then we can look at those aspects the next day. Because some students express their feelings better when they write rather than when they talk about it. 

This was a few nice ways to spice up my teaching and connecting with my students and what a nice topic to think about more in the future....