If you’re a teacher or someone who wishes of becoming one, you have to mentally digest these helpful and effective methods of maximizing the learning experiences of the younglings that are around you.
Digitized Communication Development
Language is the ultimate means by which we can express ourselves and for that reason, any lesson that can be used to enhance the learning process of attaining it greatly matters.
You can connect your prior knowledge to the objectives stated in your lesson plans by teaching the kids about how the internet can be utilized to obtain information that is relevant to any topic including learning about language and enhancing one’s vocabulary. you can impart to them your knowledge about streaming video portals such as YouTube where they can search for any topic they can think of.
The good thing about video streaming sites is that they have a lot of content that comes from various experts including teachers that are well-skilled in imparting knowledge such as the English language as well as any language from any country.
Another knowledge that you can impart to the kids is how books are now digitized. As of these times, it can be observed that there is a great increase in the publishing of ebooks along with the publishing of printed paper books. Because of this reality, ebooks should also be included in every learning curriculum of any school including those institutions where kindergarten children go.
Music and Speech Recognition Technology
In dealing with the needs of the children based on the strategies given on your lesson plan, they could be introduced to modern digital learning tools that can help them learn faster and in a much enjoyable way. For instance, they could be shown the method called Speech Recognition Technology (SRT), in which words from an ebook could be highlighted and a computer software would read those words.
Such advancement can greatly help the children in learning how to exactly pronounce a word or group of words. Musical elements could also be integrated into the lessons and in that regard, video streaming sites can also play a huge role in letting the kids sing along with an educational music video. They could also dance along with those videos in cases where action songs are shown or projected.
When such methods and technologies are utilized in class, the opportunity for letting the kids work as a group would be limitless. They could be arranged in groups of 3 or 4 while they are looking at the screen of a laptop or tablet computer. They could take turns in asking the computer they’re using to speak their highlighted words.
They could also be tasked to create digital artworks by means of computer software designed for kids. They can be used as a supplement for their language-learning drills. Such tools can be easily obtained online for free. Why computer software can be a great tool for making art instead of using paper and crayons is because the kids can easily do or undo any task without the need for lots of physical resources.
Computer apps are very forgiving because no matter how many mistakes you make on them, you can always undo your mistakes. This is a great opportunity for the kids to explore their artistic nature while learning about language.
Conducting Electronic-Based Surveys
In implementing those tasks for the kids, their cognitive skills can be greatly enhanced because they can sing or dance along with the videos they watched as they witness and behold vivid images presented by digital technology. As a response to the demands of today’s modern education techniques, such technologies must be utilized for the reason that they can greatly enhance the learning experience of children, as well as any group of learners for that matter.
The teacher should use metacognitive approaches such as making a comprehensive and detailed tally sheet for the responses of the children. Such sheets should include fields that can measure or determine how the kids have developed over time.
Statistical data should be tallied carefully and analyzed so that any weak spots of the learning program could be identified and addressed specifically. The teacher could also conduct his or her own survey from other teachers within the institution or from others. By crafting a survey questionnaire in the format of Guttman or Likert Scales, a more accurate data gathering could be conducted.
Conclusive Thoughts
In these modern times, lesson plans must not be modeled in the form of those traditional ones from the past. Times have greatly changed already and because of that, a more revolutionized way of presenting lessons to kindergarten students should be created to bring about a true paradigm shift – one that can lead to the shaping up of a bright future for the younger generation.
Hi👋 For me, as soon-to-be a teacher, I'll go with the contextualized type of lesson plan. Because as far as I know, students are more interested to learn, especially if the lessons that they may learn can be used for novel purposes.
And yes, it is indeed very important for a teacher, to ensure quality learning for the students and see to it that they are motivated to learn the lesson that taught by the teacher.
Good day!☺️