Defining Educational Innovation
Nowadays, talk about innovation is easy. With technology in our hands, we can manage a different class with more movement, dynamism and change of ideas among students and the teacher. A dynamic and interesting class is the base for students to acquire better the topic or issue that the teacher is showing at that moment. For example, if a teacher is guiding a class reading a book or just writing on the board, the students will feel bored and won’t be acquiring knowledge because they won’t be interested in what the teacher is doing. Also, if the teacher is the only one who speaks in the classroom, students will be uninteresting because there is no interaction in the class. Students need interaction and innovative ideas to receive a class, to acquire better the topics given.
Now, defining educational innovation is kind of hard; educational innovation is offering new ideas, new ways to teach with dynamism, interaction and enthusiasm to our students. Students need different ways to learn. They need movement, opinions, critics and the change of ideas among them. But, for that, we must change the syllabus, and the old ways of teach. And this is very hard because just 75% of all innovations fail, however, teachers must continue trying to implement new ways to teach. We must have clear that innovation is not just for entertainment. We must remember that the priority of innovation is the acquisition of the language with participation of the students and enjoyment.
There are many different methods to apply, but not all of them are the exact to be used in our classroom, because to one student could be the best method to learn a new language, for example, but for other student, that same method can confuses him/her. We must search for a method according to the level of students; we must take into account the age, the environment and the possibilities of acquire the knowledge with that method. So, it’s hard to determine which method is the better to make an innovative education in the classroom.