Barbara Neureither, science teacher at Holt High School in Holt, Michigan, explains how students need to be active learners. Excerpted from NCREL's videoseries, Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, Videoconference 3, Children as Explorers (NCREL, 1991).
"We have to have to students as active learners. They have to be a part of their own education constructing their own knowledge, so you cannot predict exactly what they're going to do or say in any given situation."