Scanning: What’s going on for our learners?
“To create powerful learning environments for ALL learners, we need to weave indigenous ways of knowing, with strong evidence-informed practices, and innovative and imaginative approaches. In scanning, we want to find out what is happening for learners in each of these areas.”
- Wide perspective on learning
- Inquiry and evidence-seeking takes a lot of time, surfaces assumptions & surprises
- Focus is learners and families; the individual, not LC perspective
Do the learners have: - Connections with others and environment
- Belief that LC/SLT see success in learners
- opportunities to express in a range of ways eg. express why, where, and what they are learning
- Feedback is focused and directive & Prior knowledge of L recognized and valued
- Culture recognized in curriculum and language
- L self-regulating, involved in cooperative learning
So what?
Learners are not able to express their views, most of them are pretty brand-new, as I have the emergent group
Next what?
Build relationship with them, so that the learners feel the sense of belonging in our habitat and feel the confidence to share their ideas
Give them some clues/ speaking frames like "I feel maths is...."so that they will start talking about what they know
Understand their non-verbal communication and record it
What have been the challenges for yourself, your colleagues and the learners to date, a few more weeks in?
ReplyDeleteGreat to see how you and Tanja are thinking of how to make the Hub and Progressions a useful reality for yourselves and the learners in LH2. I am wondering how we could make the Progressions really visual for the learners? Would a display of them be helpful? Maybe adding the learners names to the display as they are able to 'prove' they can do them. This could then be used by the LCs to update the progressions. Just thinking here... Look forward to seeing how this unfolds.
It is always great to come into LH2 and see happy, engaged learners- ka pai to you and the team:)