I particularly reviewed my learning against the Professional Standards for Teachers against which my development as a teacher is assessed. I discovered that not only were many of the requirements of the Standards satisfied, but that they were satisfied at a deeper level than would have been available had I simply engaged in delivering what could be described as ‘regular lessons’. Let me briefly explain by reference to one of the standards.
Standard 1 addresses the need to ‘Know the students and how they learn’. Regular lessons provide a forum for getting to know your students but I realised how much richer was the forum provided by activities such as the whole school meeting, Tinkering Day, Choice afternoon and inquiry based learning. These activities allowed for being with the students, observing them in play and discovery, interacting with them and sharing knowledge and information at their level.
I also came to realise how much more powerful it is to participate together with and guide students to their own understanding of their world through such open ended activities than to communicate, even powerfully, your understanding.
Thank you to Kris for this insight into your reflection.
We took this thoughtful pondering moment and decided to ask the children in Group 3 a couple of questions:
We first of all clarified and defined who a teacher is, and we decided it’s not just people in a classroom but in all walks of our lives, through sport, music, parents, siblings and hobbies we do. They all worked individually to come up with their own personal list of how the teachers in their lives help them. The list, as you can see, is quite extensive!!
As a result of this the children were also reflecting upon the way in which they learn!
I feel truly blessed to be part of the discussions that take place within this learning space!
- Suz & Kris
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