A point that has been stressed by GSU many times is that lecturing is boring to most students and they only retain/memorize the information long enough to take a test, without much long term meaning or relevance. Today, I was lecturing about the causes of WWI using a PowerPoint that my teacher provided. The topic wasn't uninteresting and the PowerPoint was well done. However, a majority of the students were bored. Even I was bored with it.
An aspect of teaching that I miss from Sweetwater is all of the activity. I hope that I will be able to incorporate more activities as I plan more lessons. Different activities include photo analysis, reading primary documents, and creating posters or pamphlets. Every day can't be an activity - sometimes you just have to learn the facts. However, I hope that I will be able to make my classes interesting and active.
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