Spectators or scholars?

Are the students in your class more like spectators or more like scholars?

Are the students there only to watch and listen to you? Or are they in class to work and figure things out, with your support?

Do your students mostly just sit back and watch you solve problems? Or do they lean in and solve problems with you? Do you give them adequate time to solve problems on their own?

Teachers, too many classrooms look like silent stadiums… Students in the stands, Teachers on the field. But here’s the truth:

“Whoever is doing the work, is doing the learning.” - Terry Doyle

If you want scholars, stop letting students major in observation. Real learning starts the moment we get quiet and their pencils start moving.

Your classroom can’t be a theater. It must be a lab, a workplace where students think, struggle, and figure things out.

Spectators don’t master content. Scholars do.