Throughout my teaching I have been striving to make sure my students are engaged and that the learning is meaningful to them. As is true for any teacher I want to avoid the dreaded:"why do I have to learn this" question. I have been focusing on essential questions and sweeping big broad ideas that can be connected to their immediate lives.
For example, instead of teaching WWII by focusing in battles I found these big ideas and Essential Questions that can lead to more student led discussion. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YB79j7UBaeq0_3ZzaReLe5_QAR5rpV1WMc_GrI5thaw/edit?usp=sharing)
By doing this I can focus on the broad picture and make sure students have authentic reasons to learn the material. Then I can focus my lessons on keeping students involved and not just passive learners soaking in a lecture. We were able to have some great discussions based on these ideas and the students are able to draw there own conclusions and more questions from these sentences and questions.
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