Provocations - How to move children into a hands on child driven project

 

PROVOCATIONS

We are going to continue to look at running provocations in the middle school team this year. Last year I felt like they were kind of  mucky and that the overall learning by a majority of children only happened occasionally. I would like to continue to explore meaning full experiences that will engage and hook our children into projects that are driven by them.

1. We need to teach the children the process of a project so that they are able to drive their own learning experience.

2. Help facilitate the projects by guidance, sourcing materials, allowing time and seeing about a budget

3. Mr. G - I see Mr. G as being a excellent help, as he is able to take small groups of children and can build/create some of their projects.

  

I am looking forward to attending the Longreach P.D. day to help me explore these thoughts

Provocations: A Start Up Guide - by Sally Haughey and Nicole Hill

https://www.pinterest.nz/brooksdemmi/provocation-examples/

Teacher Only Days 2020

 

Teacher Only Days 2020 31 January and 3 February

Monday 3 February 2020

Teacher only day link to slides

Karen and Michelle

Pastoral note - don't forget, make clear what you have done.

Tiers

Parent/Teacher meetings start of year expectations of what you talk about.

Friday 31 January

Six Bricks

Six Bricks Booklet

 

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Anne Cato	Fri, 7 Feb, 11:54 (2 days ago)
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https://educationinnovations.org/sites/default/files/SixBricks_OK_print.pdf

Great teacher only day today exploring Lego with Jaco from Ministry of Education -child phycologist. Neat warm up outside with two blocks each, throwing to each other, catching in the air, trying to clap - how many times can you clap before the blocks land on the ground, throwing to each other, left hand right hand, variety of ways.. Great warm up. 

I think that we will try and incorporate this into our daily programmed rotations with Nicole. I would love to explore the continued practice of helping children push themselves out of the comfort zone and see if regular use of the Left/Right brain would make a difference.