Engaged Learning

I got a lot of ideas from the teacher I did my service learning with. 
1. Movement
During the day there is a time designated for centers. There are about 15 centers around the room for the students to choose from. There are a couple centers in which the student work together.  I feel like using something like this has a chance for the student to get up and move around and choose something that they would like to do. 

2. Hands on: 
Each student has a classroom job that changes weekly. They are each in charge of something to do in the class. One job is calendar. That student has to change the date and point to the day of the week, month, day, weather, what's for lunch etc. Having the students have something that they are in charge of gives them some responsibility and they take more pride in their classroom. 


3. Choices
There was an assignment about penguins. All week they read about penguins. At the end of the week they had to color a penguin how they wanted and wrote a story about their penguin. This is a good way to let the children learn a subject and take what they learned and put that information into something  their own way. 


I didn't really have an experience of something not engaging. But I did notice when the teacher would have her back turned to do work on the smart board the students had a hard time wanting to follow along and do work. Showing the students how to do something, like a math problem, but they need to be involved or I feel like you loose their attention. If they had white boards where they could write out the problem and raise their board when they got the answer, I think would keep them more engaged in learning math.