After taking a closer look at The 7 principles of learning focusing on 3 and 4, I looked closer into thinking what things we are doing in our team and what things we may need to be doing more of.
Something I have bee thinking about is how every child comes to school from a different home. Some kids come to school smiley and happy, some angry, some upset, some stressed etc and its understandable how this impacts on each students learning. Karla in our team came up with this great idea for our team. Each morning after student shave moved their avatars to show they are at school they move their name next to how they are feeling. The students in our team are really honest most of the time. This has been great to see how they are feeling and then see what we as teachers can do to help/support students. I have also learnt a lot abut our students through this. It has taught me what excites some students, what stresses some students, some of the difficulties students face before they even get to school etc.
It has also taught me that teaching and learning is about having fun or trying something new but in a purposeful way. For it to be deeper learning it must make some sort of emotional connection because when I think about some of the 'big learning experiences' I have had on my life some of the most memorable experiences were not always 'happy/positive/exciting' ones. But I connected with them on an emotional level and in some way purposeful to my personal learning. This has also made me think about how we can make learning experiences more like this at school. Whether it be making connection between texts they are reading in Book Bash, learning about something they are passionate about for their IE'S and then trying to make a social impact or teaching something you have learnt to someone else, we are always thinking about how we can make our curriculum enjoyable and effective to students learning in our team.
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