Who Owns the Learning?
How VocabularySpellingCity Helps Students Own their Word Study
I’ve been thinking a lot about onee of the questions that each teacher and the whole educational system wrestles with daily: student engagement and motivation. What motivates students to learn? How can we motivate them to learn?
Long-time teacher and educational consultant Alan November says that students who own their learning are passionate, hard-working, and motivated to learn because they choose the work and believe in its purpose.
In today’s education system, too often students are told to do tasks in which they see little purpose. A large percentage of the work they do in school seems to have little bearing on their lives. As a consequence, students become more and more disempowered by the educational system. So they disengage.
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