‘Designing for learners’

There are many things a teacher has to think about we designing the classroom and homework activities. It is very important to help the students to the high level learning. It is really important for the teacher to find a happy median on things. They do not want to be the students best friend or be the teacher in the case study we read about. If the students don't respect the it will be a long semester for both the teacher and the students.

Does this mean the teacher should not challenge the students? NO, they need to challenge the students. The teacher though must make it known from day one what they expect and spell everything out for the students. If the students understand why the are doing this assignment or paper the will get more out of it. When looking at the case study one of the complains is having to write papers and that they never have had to do it before they did it in english and got an A so why are we doing it now? Communicate is major for everything. In todays world we are always email, IM, twitter, or social networking and if you don't know how to do this well it will be hard to do your job well.