Engage Learners In Today's Classrooms

Engage learning is different educational strategies which the class or groups of individuals learn by doing different activities or projects. I have noticed while working in the classroom that the teacher cooperates engage learning in many different ways while they teach.

First three days a week the students get the chance to work on engage learning on computers. Each individual student gets a computer and they get to work on different learning games that help them learn. They will use websites such as ABCmouse.com and Abcya.com. These websites they use to play games that involve answering and solving problems. I have noticed on these sites that each kid is in a different area of learning and that when they are able to get to a specific level they are able to get a certain amount of coins and then eventually buy something in the gift shop.

Second is there rotations. Every Thursday they have three rotations that they go through. Each different individual table will have a different learning activity that they will do. This last time one table was read to about nursery rooms and they had to draw mother goose. Another table played a matching game where they had to find the words that rhymed with one another. Another table got to cut out stars and glitter them. The final table learned about different shapes by playing with shape blocks and trying to get them to fit with one another.

Finally at the beginning of class I have noticed they will use music to learn about there vowels, letters, and even numbers. Songs such as Old MacDonald, twinkle twinkle star, and even songs I have never heard before. Four students will be involved with either leading, pointing at the words, helping the students, or just buy having fun. They all get to interact with the music and have fun while learning.

Even though they do many different activities in the classroom that are engaging some are not so engaging. For example when they do P.E. they aren't learning they are more like playing and getting exercise like it's recess time. P.E. is a good idea because it keeps the kids healthy and strong but they don't actually learn anything from it. P.E. can be made to be engaging by asking questions during the game that will make it more interesting. Overall since they are kindergartners most of the activities they do are engaging and they do learn from what they are doing.