Showing posts with label relevancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relevancy. Show all posts

Monday, 14 April 2014

Teaching Tool for the Real World

Open the door to the real world !
Bringing relevancy to the classroom

 On occasion we may hear a student say "why do I have to learn this ?"  or "what use will this be to me after school ?".

As a teacher I found this a bit frustrating sometimes because I knew more of the bigger picture that I was teaching towards - step by step. I knew that the seemingly irrelevant section of work was very important indeed.

Telling them "trust me, it's important" was not enough. I wanted to help open the eyes of my students to the living and working reality of the outside world. I wanted to give them some meaning and purpose in what they were doing within the walls of the classroom.

So I devised a very handy teaching tool !