All in all, what makes great teaching is being able to make at least a small change in a student's life. To be able to offer a safe space where they feel welcomed and not judged for who they are, where they come from, their financial status, or anything of those sorts. Being able to teach students a variety of different subjects and not exclude any curriculum. To help your students understand, one could use these five strategies. I also included what they are and how they personally helped me!
1. Blogging with other educators
-This consists of posting your perspective on a site called Blogger and commenting on other educators’ posts to communicate.
-This strategy really helped me because I got to learn new strategies, lessons, and ways of thinking from different sets of minds.
2. Selecting Golden Lines
-Selecting golden lines is reading the text and choosing which statements really stood out to you.
-I enjoyed this strategy because it got a bit personal, and it reminded me of what is important to me.
3. 3-2-1 Research Reports
-3-2-1 reports are three things you found out, two things you’ve learned and one question you still have from the lesson or reading.
-This strategy is good to help students set in their mind what they picked up from the lesson, what stood out to them, and questions they may still have.
4. DO’s and DON’Ts
-DO’s and DON’Ts are lists of what to do and what not to do in certain situations.
-It helped me visually sort out the acceptable things to say/do and the ones that weren’t. Writing them down helped my mind remember them for the future.
5. Black-Out Poem
-A black-out poem is when you write down the words that stood out to you in a reading and input how many times that word was said. The more the word is used, the bigger it is. This could also be for important words that stood out to you.
-This strategy is by far my favorite because the poem doesn’t actually need to flow. It just needs to be words that stood out to you and correlated with the lesson. It helped me memorize and understand the subject more.
