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REFLECTING ON MY INNOVATION NEED 5.2.4

My view about innovative teaching is revolutionizing and very quickly. The exposure I got from the first part of course 5 was one that gave me a glimpse of what was in store as regards teaching with innovation and now that I have completed 5.2.3, I consider myself to be, to  a greater extent, ready for my next innovative lesson. In talking about innovation, I now see that it is about allowing the learners to freely learn in social groups created either virtual or physical and facilitating them with guidelines that enable them to create knowledge on their own as they go about with pre-designed tasks. This kind of collaboration exploits learners creativity abilities and has lead to results we had never imagined would ever be realised. In engaging learners in these tasks they are prompted to critically think - another skill - and come with solutions to the challenges before them. The role of the teacher in this regard is narrowed to seeing to it that a lesson is designed in a way that it is learner centred and highly motivating; notwithstanding the many qualities of a good lesson like clear learning outcomes and well designed, structured and thought through models to mention but a few. 
It follows therefore that I should be changing my teaching and in so doing I look forward to having students be engaged more in the lessons I conduct, withdrawing more from face to face student to teacher interaction, enriching classroom environment with idea prompters and teaching aids that make the learner create ideas, working with my colleague teachers to see to it that we jointly design lessons with more creativeness and innovation. This will bring a very big change for the better.




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