Effective Techniques that Teachers Use

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Over the years, teachers have realized that some students learn better when taught in different ways. A teachers task is to make sure that us students learn. All students want to do is have fun. There has to be a good balance between the two. Teachers have tried several ways to let us have fun and learn at the same time. Some ways teachers could make learning fun and more effective are doing group projects, having study groups, and making and doing review games.
Since starting high school, several of my teachers have made us do large projects. I remember my junior year of high school, my biology two teacher assigned us a museum project. We had to go to different places and collect leaves. Not only did we need the leaves, we had to press them and label certain parts of them. I remember that one of the items was a lima bean. Not only did you have the lima bean, but you had to grow it so that it showed the different parts of it. It was a fun project because you weren’t just sitting at your computer all day, you actually had to get out of the house and go find these leaves. ...

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