A little while ago, the class reflected on whether there was more to being a successful learner than concentrating hard and working hard. They decided that there most definitely was! From this came the idea of ‘learning buddies.’ Students would tell me what learning skills they were good at and which they needed to work on (such as … Continue reading »
I was lucky enough to attend the Springboard Trust’s Leadership in Education Forum recently where global, national and local education issues were discussed. The day begun with a McKinsey and Company representative guiding us though their report “How the world’s best school systems come out on top“. This was followed by a talk from Cathy … Continue reading »
“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.” (Susan Cain) I’ve been wanting to read Susan Cain’s book Quiet for a little while so, when I saw her video on TED talks laziness prevailed and I decided to watch it. The talk really resonated with me as I would consider myself more … Continue reading »
We are currently doing a unit of inquiry into systems of government and organisation and decided to get the students putting their learning into practice this week. Could they organise themselves without the teacher present? At 9:00 yesterday the Year 6 teachers played a short video explaining we were now relaxing on a beach in Fiji (if … Continue reading »
The Year 6 students did an interesting experiment today, for our unit on government systems and human rights. We arbitrarily split the kids into ‘blacks’ and ‘whites’ then outlined the different rights (or lack there-of) each group were to have for the day. It was definitely unfair and lacking in equality, the idea being that … Continue reading »
This week we have started a class Twitter account which has been fun and beneficial. The initial purpose of this was: To allow children to connect with other teachers and students around the world. Students like to share their learning on Uspace but feel they only have a small audience. With Twitter, they can share … Continue reading »
There seems to be a bit of tension between personalising learning and encouraging collaboration in the classroom. I would like to argue that, to ensure our students are successful learners, we need to have both personalisation and collaboration in our classes. Personalisation is integral in allowing students to learn at their own pace, to learn what they need to, … Continue reading »
I posed this question to my class today to get the children to reflect on how far they had come this term. Below are their responces (click to enlarge). Continue reading »
