"Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . . "says renowned linguist, philosopher, historian, and scientist, Noam Chomsky
In my classroom, you will see the purpose of education through the classroom environment and my teaching.
Children are encouraged to problem solve, lead their learning and grow their knowledge and skills to become learners who love to learn.
My philosophy is to grow learners who take responsibility, persevere and find out about they are interested in. I do this by giving them a scenario where they can think beyond the boundaries and come up with a range of possibilities.
I have changed my pedagogy this year, to using a whole class approach where the children are encouraged to work collaboratively and share their thinking and then to apply what they have learnt from others in a similar situation.
I have been doing this by asking the children to NOTICE when given an exemplar, this could be sample of writing or a word mathematics problem. This activity creates discussion about what is within the exemplar - helps co-construct success criteria with the children.
The next part is to THINK, the children compare and contrast the exemplar with another similar exemplar or possible solution from the children. This also creates discussion and can add to the success criteria. After this phase the children are given more examples to practise, with those children who require more help with the learning are encouraged to work with a buddy or come to a workshop with the Teacher. To ensure those children who need more help are present, I will ask them to come to the workshop.
The next session involves IMITATE phase, the children practise the learning with a similar exemplar and with more independence. Another workshop is available but the children are encouraged to practise on their own and share back and reflect on how they went at the end of the session. The sharing back session encourages the children to use the success criteria to reflect on how they went.
Using the children learner's pathways, I encourage the children to investigate the what they have learnt and how they can use this learning in another way. This is the INNOVATE phase, the whole process involves more student agency and gives more purpose to the learning.
I hope to develop this more where the children are self reflecting and finding out what "they" need to learn.
In my classroom, you will see the purpose of education through the classroom environment and my teaching.
Children are encouraged to problem solve, lead their learning and grow their knowledge and skills to become learners who love to learn.
My philosophy is to grow learners who take responsibility, persevere and find out about they are interested in. I do this by giving them a scenario where they can think beyond the boundaries and come up with a range of possibilities.
I have changed my pedagogy this year, to using a whole class approach where the children are encouraged to work collaboratively and share their thinking and then to apply what they have learnt from others in a similar situation.
I have been doing this by asking the children to NOTICE when given an exemplar, this could be sample of writing or a word mathematics problem. This activity creates discussion about what is within the exemplar - helps co-construct success criteria with the children.
The next part is to THINK, the children compare and contrast the exemplar with another similar exemplar or possible solution from the children. This also creates discussion and can add to the success criteria. After this phase the children are given more examples to practise, with those children who require more help with the learning are encouraged to work with a buddy or come to a workshop with the Teacher. To ensure those children who need more help are present, I will ask them to come to the workshop.
The next session involves IMITATE phase, the children practise the learning with a similar exemplar and with more independence. Another workshop is available but the children are encouraged to practise on their own and share back and reflect on how they went at the end of the session. The sharing back session encourages the children to use the success criteria to reflect on how they went.
Using the children learner's pathways, I encourage the children to investigate the what they have learnt and how they can use this learning in another way. This is the INNOVATE phase, the whole process involves more student agency and gives more purpose to the learning.
I hope to develop this more where the children are self reflecting and finding out what "they" need to learn.
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