Posts Tagged ‘fun’
I have a simple, inexpensive, highly effective means of improving learning for all students: Make things fun.
The makers of the dancing traffic light get it. It works because it is fun, and fun always increases attention, engagement, effort, and performance. Fun. It’s a word that is tragically absent from teaching today. Of all the strategies that teachers could do to be more effective, making the school day more fun for their…
Read More“Fun” is the word most often missing from education today. It’s practically nonexistent.
I have many goals as a teacher, but my primary goal, is to make school a fun and memorable place that kids want to return to daily. I want my students to despise Saturday and Sunday. I want them to lament the approach of summer vacation. Lofty and perhaps unattainable goals, but ones I strive…
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