Chapter 10: Going Beyond the Classroom

This chapter deals with how not all learning goes on in classrooms. Sometimes students learn more outside of classes in workplaces or at home. It is important for teachers to try to link the work done at school to things that are happening in students lives outside of school. Many classes are easy to connect to outside events while others are more difficult. When a teacher is able to to connect a class to outside events it gets the students to pay attention and they are better able to comprehend the topic being covered.

I think that this is one of the most important things to do as a teacher. Connecting what you are teaching in a class to what is happening outside of school makes students pay attention. I know that in the classes I have taken I always paid more attention when the teacher was able to connect what we were learning to outside events. History and social science classes are the easiest classes to connect to current events while math and physics are easy to connect to everyday things. I think chemistry is the hardest class to connect because of the lack of mixing chemicals in everyday life.