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Last year I was given the incredible opportunity to attend a DFI ( Digital Fluency Intensive) being a teacher within the Maniakalani schools group. This subsequently lead to applying for the 2020 MIT ( Maniakalani Innovative Teacher ) opportunity, an initiative designed to encourage innovative thinking and creating of new 'tools' within education.Each applicant was required to propose a problem that they had identified within teaching and learning.
My proposal centered around learning through listening in independent groups.
I noticed that as teachers we often grouped children to share and learn together. However, when observing groups in my classroom I noticed that the children's ability to learn from each other was often impeded by social status and a lack of attention or value placed on what another child was saying.
Defining the challenge that impacted achievement took four re-writes to hone and clarify. It now reads:
The following deck of slides shares some of my initial thoughts around how I might address the social connection among students in a learning group.
Thank you for reading this post. If anything resonated with you or if you have ideas to contribute to developing a solution please feel free to comment below. I would love to hear your thoughts.
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