"It's time to change the subject"
Since when did we move away from 1-to-1 learning? The earliest examples of this was when males would allow societies to travel into the mountains to study religious text.
Segregation has been around for a long time. Girls and Women were not allowed to study in schools until 1850 in what is now the USA.
Campbell’s law was proven when grade 4 teachers began changing the test answers for their students in their own time. Grade 5 teachers discovered this when their students were not working at the level that they had achieved at the previous year.
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You don't have to segregate subject areas. Collective learning is more effective than individual learning.
Content is irrelevant - it is how students react to learning, what they do, how they do it.
His big theme was project-based learning where students are put into teams. All their learning is based on projects, inquiry, integration, invention, authentic, experiential, exhibitions and assessment is alternative.
In terms of getting students to pass national exams, he says students can prepare intensively for external exams without dedicating the whole year to it.
Big take out: move toward more project-based learning with an integrated curriculum.
QUESTIONS:
1. How do you get around the challenges of having to prepare students for specific exams?
Work completed in the Middle East had many teachers who said ‘but we can’t do that because we have to get our students ready to sit matriculation exams’.
Larry’s team decided to spend the next week interviewing people. What they found was that people said that they prepared for these exams in the 4-5 weeks leading up to the exam. This proves that this preparation can still be done in conjunction with the integrated or project-based work undertaken beforehand.
2. How did you ensure that student voice was used to direct and develop project-based learning?
Student directed the structure of their work.
First you have an inquiry i.e. what are we trying to do? Then we have a plan i.e. how will we do it? (observations, reflections etc.).. Then we have the exhibition (which are extremely popular with the community and parents).
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