What To Do When Learners Make Mistakes in Science Class
Irene M. Guillermo
The general issue is that the learners make stupid mistakes because they don't understand how it works and they don't know the facts. They're not supposed to make any mistakes. But the truth is overlooked, it's only by making errors that learners understand. Learners get a learning process. They grow and develop organized, consistent ways, learn to travel around their environment, interact, and play. As their capacity increases with the environment, the errors will also increase. So, to correct these mistakes, we should mingle with the learners. Learners are always interested in learning new things, but they make a lot of mistakes while learning.
As teachers, we need to have an effective and efficient error relation. Learners respond wrongly, incompletely, and imprudently or do not respond at all. It is important to provide feedback to learners when they make mistakes. The teacher should then support them to ensure that this mistake is corrected quickly and efficiently. Don't always solve the mistake of the learner during learning acquisition. Nowadays, learners usually prefer the "learning by doing" form, but if errors are repeated, what do they learn? They should learn how to execute skills correctly. Learners learn more with feedback.
The teacher needs to take care of every mistake. It will enable both the teacher and the learner to have effective teaching and learning. Learning can be improved when error correction is followed sequentially; errors should be corrected before progressing to the next component. Immediate error correction is more effective. So a teacher should not neglect to correct an error when he/she directs a group because correcting one 's error makes others learn mastery. Error correction should be performed directly with complete and correct details. Error correction should be fast, so teaching should be done on time, or sometimes too many errors make learners lose interest or create uncertainty, which requires more and more direct discussion for better learning.
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The author is Teacher II at Marawi High School