Reeling In Research Assignment
Many concepts and ideas were shared in the film Passion Project. One of the concepts on education stood out among the rest: teacher and student involvement in the classroom. Both the teacher and student, according to the film, need to carry their passion with them when learning. The classroom is a place of exploration, filled with people of various backgrounds and opinions on life. My paper focus, rebelling against the idea that learning is just about head knowledge, starts with this concept of student and teacher involvement. When a classroom is interactive, it increases the student’s capacity to learn not just about the course material, but about the views of others and most importantly, about their views on themselves. To further expand on that, “Students want and need work that permits them to express their autonomy and originality, enabling them to discover who they are and who they want to be” (Strong 11).
According to the article What Do Students Want? by Richard Strong, students have four goals when learning: success, curiosity, originality, and relationships. These goals form the acronym SCORE (the E stands for energy, but isn’t part of the four goals) and allows teachers to assess how they’re teaching. Richard Strong states in his article What Do Students Want? “The point of our SCORE model of engagement is first to help teachers discover what they are already doing right and then to encourage the cultivation of everyday classroom conditions that foster student motivation and success” (9). In order for the teachers to be successful, they need to not only create a learning environment beneficial for the students, but they need to constantly assess and recultivate that environment for them. This is how teachers give students what they want, and this is how students learn about the world around them, others, and themselves.
Works Cited
Richard Strong, Harvey F. Silver, and Amy Robinson. What Do Students Want? EBSCO Publishing, 2002.
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