Big powerful and meaningful ideas make education easier.
Designing lessons is not just generation of ideas for learners to accomplish or apply without having a clear notion of the purpose or the way of doing it. On the contrary, desired results should be based on the principle that learners must know and understand exactly what to learn and why it is important for they to acquire that knowledge. If students are aware of the final goals they are expected to achieve and why, they will most value the important rol they have on the purpose of getting developed the required skill or ability and on the procedure to get it. This is not easy.
Thus, designing lesson implies outmost teachers´capability to develop in learners their major potentials and desired skills in order to achieve their goals successfully with little or nobody´s dependance in future life. Teachers must pay attention to more important ideas, tasks, procedures and processes to develop the learners´skills.
If we have our ideas clear about our subject, it is easier to understand who are we working for. In that sense we are going to know what to plan, to teach and so on.
ResponderEliminarAs you said, to clarify our goals when designing our lessons it is relevant to make our students understand our purposes for each activity, but equally important is to make use of our flexibility and creativity for the desired results.
ResponderEliminarDesired results depend on how meaningful the tasks presented to students are carried out. We must show our students the importance of those tasks and by doing so we are going to help them succeed in achieving the learning outcomes.
ResponderEliminarAfter reading your post,I want to point out what you mentioned about making our students to be aware of the purpose of certain skills and tasks they are asked to develop.I think that "awareness" is the key that enables teachers to teach more effectively with students that actually value being part of this learning process and are willing to participate on it. I can recall one of my students that was very reluctant to take English classes since he did not find a clear aim on doing it.
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