THE VALUE OF CHOICE

     The value of choice is a controversy topic I would say. Many are firm believers of having choice yet others, averse it. Regardless of your position it is important to learn about it. I would agree that the majority of the expected requirements in the Teacher's module make a lot of sense especially if the teacher himself and the students as well can come up with new ways to make what needs to be taught,learned more comprehensible ways in which the student can connect with better. For example the Hamlet's soliloquy would make sense to learn the traditional way instead of wasting our time acting it our since all we are simply doing is analyzing the text. However, it can be agreed that by acting out a particular scene in the classroom, visual learners will indeed have connected much better with the text and actually would have understood it compared to if the class had never quite taken the action.
     I really want to master persuasion skills for my essays which will be extremely beneficial to my educational career and just extremely useful in everyday life and negotiating with irrational human beings. I really like the idea of quick writes and brainstorming before a major assignment of essay to introduce the class to the new topic without it being a slap across the face. Key vocabulary is definitely a core concept I feel needs to be tackled by all former high school students because it truly makes you stand out among the rest. Not only will the majority of these activities and requirements be beneficial to us for our future English classes in college, but also in many aspects of our real life which many students at the moment do not realize but will in the future if not tomorrow, then in five years or somewhere else down the road. I think the most important thing to keep in mind is that we need to allocate and strategize new ways of presenting these ideas to students so that we do not receive the usual tepid responses and dead atmosphere. We need to find these new ways in which the student will become attentive by choice and not by force. This is the problem many teachers have been attempting to solve for many years now but failed because they missed the key point- the students; hearing the students and what they have to say since in the end, the education is for them.