Mental Yoga

Modern educators need to recognize and adapt to the rapidly changing information world we live in to foster change in the classroom. Aside from the immense amount of valuable information on technology in education, the most beneficial information from the class was instruction, applying, and assessing students in a single class period. This was not a strategy employed while I was in school, and teachers often went class period with required students to apply skills, and teachers assessed students at the end of units, during mid-terms, or end-of-term assignments.  

I intend on keeping the concept of completing all three aspects of teaching into a single period in mind while I plan my lessons. Intellectual flexibility is paramount in the twenty-first century. I agree, access to rapidly changing content has changed the way people interact with information, and teaching students to learn and apply knowledge or skills is vital to being successful in the environment. But it requires a fundamental shift in the services schools provide their students and the strategies teachers employ in their classrooms.