Make Learning the New Cool

They said they wanted to be doing something real, not just sitting around." As to doing something real, students would rather see how their education or the subject they are learning correlates to live. In "Big Ideas for Better Schools: Ten Ways to Improve Education" Edutopia shows us the many ways school and learning can be improved. Of the many examples this one sounded like the best option to encourage learning, "Students go beyond the textbook to study complex topics based on real-world issues, such as the water quality in their communities or the history of their town, analyzing information from multiple sources, including the Internet and interviews with experts. Project-based classwork is more demanding than traditional book-based instruction, where students may just memorize facts from a single source. Instead, students utilize original documents and data, mastering principles covered in traditional courses but learning them in more meaningful ways." Creating a teaching method that goes over the set standards and infuses them with tangible aspects of live and doing something real can definitely solve the lack of engagement from student. This shows that this method creates more ambition in the students because they see the real world correlation with their learning. This will create avidity for learning because students will see the reasons to learn and will no longer be bored.
             Encouraging teaching, will create better teaches and better outcomes that our current educational system is not providing. Giving future educators incentives to become teachers and to remain in the profession will not only create more teachers, but it will create better teachers. A happy educator will seek to better him or herself, and will increase the quality of the education they offer to their students. We currently have a shortage of teachers that may be due to the low pay and the lack of encouragement of going into teaching as stated by Michael Moore "The person who cares for our child every day receives an average of $41,351 annually.