In my health class I am teaching an alcohol prevention unit called power lines. I enjoy it and it is going well, but there are a few things that I don't like. I find that it is very poorly put together in forms of student to teacher interaction. Everything is formated out and there is not a lot of room for change or unplaned involvement. The topics and are ideas are productive but we as teachers should have more free range to teach the topic.
What are some ways that I could incorperate the structured lesson, but still allow for active thinking pertaining to topics to be involved in the lesson?
I find it frustrating when everything in a lesson is so preset. I think it denies the students opportunities for higher level thinking and critical reasoning. Are there ways that you could break the students into small groups and give them each a question to respond to, then present their reasoning to the entire group?
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