L. said that our next 'goal' will be more like a 'research' and the more I think about our class inquiry about our ideal New Entrant Classroom and RE and probably other aspects of early childhood learning I am wanting to make that my 'area of research". Wouldn't it be great to learn along side the children - to think, to question, to view, to make, to design, to listen, to????? like them. I am excited about my learning again.
However, I better keep going with our Travel Buddy work also. I am bad at not finishing things properly. Oh and that class blog needs to develop- great that K. Mum's comment came through - it was me not clicking on the right heading. I need to get other whanau involved too.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Reggio Emilia
Its amazing how much this is coming into my life at the moment. Chrissie said she has some photos of RE centres on her laptop that she got when she went to Melbourne and also the new Early Birds centre for 4 year olds (where Josie S works ) uses RE ideas. I am certain our class inquiry for term 4 and RE can be tied in somehow.
From the Curriculum
For our term 4 inquiry about the best kind of NE classroom I can find these curriculum 'links'
Social Sciences- Place and Environment - Students learn about how people perceive,represent, interpret and interact with places and their environment.
The Arts- Visual Arts - Investigate visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation and imagination. By this I mean things like the students making models, taking photos, drawing etc as a way of sharing their thinking.
English - Listening, reading , viewing - for finding ideas etc-
-Speaking, writing and Presenting- as ways to share information, ideas, thinking
ICT - use of tools to be part of all of the above and the KC's
Key Competencies now there's an interesting area for planning.
Thinking - "Thinking is about using creative, critical and megacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences and ideas. Students who are competent thinkers and problem solvers actively seek, use and create knowledge. Do I want this for my students from this unit -YES
Using language, symbols and texts - YES
Managing Self - a can do attitude, self assessing YES
Relating to Others- By working effectively together, they can come up with new approaches, ideas and ways of thinking. YES
Participating and Contributing - its about being actively involved in communities. Communities included whanau, school , other learning places (eg Preschools) - locally, nationally and globally. YES
Social Sciences- Place and Environment - Students learn about how people perceive,represent, interpret and interact with places and their environment.
The Arts- Visual Arts - Investigate visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation and imagination. By this I mean things like the students making models, taking photos, drawing etc as a way of sharing their thinking.
English - Listening, reading , viewing - for finding ideas etc-
-Speaking, writing and Presenting- as ways to share information, ideas, thinking
ICT - use of tools to be part of all of the above and the KC's
Key Competencies now there's an interesting area for planning.
Thinking - "Thinking is about using creative, critical and megacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences and ideas. Students who are competent thinkers and problem solvers actively seek, use and create knowledge. Do I want this for my students from this unit -YES
Using language, symbols and texts - YES
Managing Self - a can do attitude, self assessing YES
Relating to Others- By working effectively together, they can come up with new approaches, ideas and ways of thinking. YES
Participating and Contributing - its about being actively involved in communities. Communities included whanau, school , other learning places (eg Preschools) - locally, nationally and globally. YES
Term 4 inquiry
I am going to do some brainstorming before planning our term unit as after the trip to Wanganui I now know that HEAPS of work goes in BEFORE the unit starts. L has lend me a book by Kath Murdoch called Classroom connections and it has heaps of easy to follow material for each stage of an inquiry.
Iwill use her headings and read thru her stuff and come up with some of my own.
Tuning in - to find out what students already know, think and feel about the topic. This could be where I do my first assessment as this is where students share their personal experiences and ask questions about the topic.
finding out - to provide shared experiences for all students to process and reflect on and to challenge their prior knowledge and beliefs. Its also about raising more questions as well as providing new information.
sorting out - to provide students with various means of processing and presenting info and ideas from the finding out stage.
going further - to extend and challenge childrens thinking
making connections/conclusions - to assist students to make conclusions and generalisations about the topic and to assess and demonstrate students progress through providing a comparison for students between the ideas generated at the beginning of the unit and now (stage 2 of assessment?)
taking action - to assist students make links between their understandings and their experiences in the real world. To develop an action plan for the school. (SEE Topic later)
sharing,discussion and reflections - to develop skills to report to others, to provide feedback for evaluation purposes about the successful and less successful aspects of the unit
She also has great planning sheets and I need these at the moment as I tend to start with a hiss and a roar and never finish the inquiries properly.
I want this one to work.
The inquiry will come from our term 4 overview about designing a new 'system' to solve a problem at school. I am going to take it further and our unit will be on what would make the best new entrant classroom. Next blog will be after I have had a good look at the curriculum. Oh and I also want the parents to be involved in this unit- how???
Iwill use her headings and read thru her stuff and come up with some of my own.
Tuning in - to find out what students already know, think and feel about the topic. This could be where I do my first assessment as this is where students share their personal experiences and ask questions about the topic.
finding out - to provide shared experiences for all students to process and reflect on and to challenge their prior knowledge and beliefs. Its also about raising more questions as well as providing new information.
sorting out - to provide students with various means of processing and presenting info and ideas from the finding out stage.
going further - to extend and challenge childrens thinking
making connections/conclusions - to assist students to make conclusions and generalisations about the topic and to assess and demonstrate students progress through providing a comparison for students between the ideas generated at the beginning of the unit and now (stage 2 of assessment?)
taking action - to assist students make links between their understandings and their experiences in the real world. To develop an action plan for the school. (SEE Topic later)
sharing,discussion and reflections - to develop skills to report to others, to provide feedback for evaluation purposes about the successful and less successful aspects of the unit
She also has great planning sheets and I need these at the moment as I tend to start with a hiss and a roar and never finish the inquiries properly.
I want this one to work.
The inquiry will come from our term 4 overview about designing a new 'system' to solve a problem at school. I am going to take it further and our unit will be on what would make the best new entrant classroom. Next blog will be after I have had a good look at the curriculum. Oh and I also want the parents to be involved in this unit- how???
Technology
Last night I went onto L.'s ICTPD wiki and saw this really interesting slide show on 32 Technology integration tips. I saw some things that support how I feel about how its about the learning , how we learn off our teaching mates (like our cluster shares) and the power of the kids. I left a comment but this morning there was an email saying it was 'a fraud attempt". Once again when I think I am doing something right with this ICT something goes wrong!!!! One step forward and 2 steps back?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Reggio Emilia
I was talking to Chrissie - my lovely daughter in law -who is an early childhood teacher- and she said that when I babysit my moko, while she went to Melbourne a couple of years ago, it was a Reggio Emilia conference she went to. What a small world. I am finding out more about his philosophy etc from internet and I found a book in the library and now I will enjoy 'interviewing' her.
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