There are many ways to learn and even more ways to teach the trick is finding a way to teach that accommodated all of your student's learning styles. The teacher that I am doing my service learning under has found a way to do just that. Recently I have been able to help during the students reading and writing portion of the day where the teacher is using the learning theory connectivism as a teaching strategy.
Connectivism is based upon the idea that people process information by forming connections. Connectivism suggests that people no longer stop learning after formal education, they continue to gain knowledge from other avenues especially access to information with new tools in technology.
Although the students do use technology during this class time (they use a program called Lexia) that's not what I found so interesting. This teacher used street signs to help with sight words and identifying sight words. For example, seeing the word Hospital and connecting that with the picture on the street sign helped the students to remember the word and aided them in spelling it.
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