I have to agree with you that worksheets seem to not be effective. I just don’t see why teachers are still using them so frequently if they know that it is not an effective mode of learning. I know the school I was at mainly did worksheets; actually I think that was all they did. Are work sheets appropriate for second graders or should they be steering away from them as well? I would think they would benefit more from understanding the concepts as opposed to filling in the missing words.
I felt the same way about group work. All through growing up I dreaded working in a group. My views have changed a lot since being in this program though. I think the issue for me was that no teacher ever showed us how to work in groups effectively. One person took the majority of the work and the rest of us split everything else up. There was no cooperative learning because we were working alone, in a group. I found that working together for the Scavenger Hunt project worked a lot better since we worked together and bounced ideas off of one another. As a teacher, I hope to be able to model how to work effectively with others and hope my class is able to work together as well.
Finally, I think that education has come a long way since we were in school or perhaps everyone always knew all of this information, they just weren’t willing to apply it to their classroom. I was never encouraged to think deeply about what I was doing or learning. I feel if I was that perhaps I would have gotten more out of my education.
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