Active Learning in the Classroom

i tend to embrace more techniques that are pretty structured. I think sometimes we feel like as teachers who need to control everything, and we need to know exactly what the outcomes are going to be. But i think there can be quite a lot of space within an assignment of how they tackle that work and how they do that. And that's much more motivating. One of the things i've learned through my teaching career is that students sort of wait me out. They don't naturally walk into my class thinking, here's an opportunity to be creative and open and curious.