The value of involving students in extra curricular activities

Summary:

What are your experiences of getting students enthused and engaged with science outside of timetabled lessons?

Re: The value of involving students in extra curricular activities

Francisca Wheeler 13 Jan 2010 21:38

In my 25 years of classroom teaching I have found that students always respond with enthusiasm to being involved in project work either individually or in teams. The effect that that has in the students' attitude in the classroom is amazing. The important job for the teacher is to discover what are the particular interests of the student or group of students and devise a topic related to it for the students to work on. Whether students are involved in finding out by reading or by doing, they become much more aware of what is still out there to learn and that makes for a much more attentive and inquisitive student. After all that is what we want all our students to be.
Francisca Wheeler