My Genius Hour Question

The Pursuit of Learning

As a future educator, I would like to explore how I can inspire students to learn after they have shut down academically?

One of the responsibilities of a teacher is to encourage students in the pursuit of learning, especially to encourage those students who have given up on school. We all have these students in our classrooms; most often they are the ones acting out, distracting their classmates. They are disengaged. How can can we re-engage these students before they fall farther behind their classmates?

My goals for this project are:

• to easily identify the students who have given up academically in my classroom?
• to discover strategies for effectively re-engaging these students
• and to create purposeful learning activities that will inspire all of my students to learn

I will measure my progress by recording what I have learned and hopefully having the opportunity to practice effective teaching in a classroom environment during my teaching block this semester.  

Let's start exploring!