Tania Lattanzio IGE
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Teacher, consultant, author, conceptual learning, inquiry, agency, working with educational settings to provide diverse and personalised professional learning.
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I look forward to the day when report cards no longer exist, schools already report to parents through blogs, learning journals, technology so why is at the end of each semester learning is wrapped up in report card that shows so little of what students have actually achieved.
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What a wonderful provocation. What math do you see in this dance? via
Facebook: Universal Dance
@universaldancebr
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Inquiry is a process not a step by step formula to follow.
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Thinking of teachers having to write report cards. Placing students they know so well into boxes, summing up their learning with a comment, when they know they are so much more than that. Then the editing process that follows. So much time. Time to rethink this practice?
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Watched
#HumanNatureFilm
on Netflix, fascinating to find out about
#CRISPR
and their immense possibilities. So much to think and wonder about with regard to the ethics of the possibilities too. Changing DNA.. WOW!
@DanRather
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Some nice ideas to promote discussion in the classroom. Remember it is the students who should be doing most of the talking.
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This is happening first work travel trip in over 2 years. I cannot wait to get to KAUST to connect face to face with educators and hear the noise of children in schools. So excited.. I think I’m going to cry with joy ..
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Why do children need to record how long they read for? Do adults? It can make reading seem like a task someone has made you do rather than enjoying it for all it offers. Ditching the Reading Logs
@edutopia
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Conceptual Inquiry: 'When concepts are emphasised over content there is no limit to the range of ideas that students may investigate through a conceptual lens. It is crucial that teachers allow time for students to pursue their own inquiries' Taking the Complexity Out of Concepts
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Why teach conceptually? Many reasons to move to a conceptually focussed framework for curriculum. Learners connect knowledge to build understanding around big ideas of importance that are transferrable and applicable. Meaningful, powerful learning.
#conceptsinaction
#deeplearning
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We all know the research and benefits of play for children, it is incredible that as educators who understand how valuable and important play is to children that we are still having to defend it. Thank you to all of you who continue advocate for the right to play.
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What makes a unit of learning worth being involved in for students? Always remember the voice of students, the criteria can be changed, added to and adapted to include students' thoughts and ideas on unit learning, after all they are the biggest stakeholders in their learning.
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Revisiting
@kjinquiry
The Art of Inquiry cards. Wonderful ideas to think about and reflect on in connection to our inquiry practices.
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When schools implement programs and ask teachers to follow them they take away teacher agency and creativity. Teaching is a craft, teachers develop and try ideas to engage students in meaningful learning building their craft. It is not a one size fits all for teacher or students.
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Process of Inquiry: Inquiry is not linear and student may revisit aspects of the process as required.
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Updating Outdated Practices in Early Childhood Education
Outdated:
Themes
Product art
Daily calendar
Mandatory circles
Lining up
Time-outs
Worksheets
via
@DianeKashin1
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"Describing someone as a “fast learner”... suggest that the person is smart..we have bought into this idea that speed tells us something about ability...creating barriers to learning..perpetuating the belief that not all students are capable."
@hgse
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How much room do we leave in our planning for student inquiries and wonderings? If all our planning is done prior to the unit beginning and there is no flexibility with this then it is a teacher driven unit not a student inquiry based unit. We need to make room for that space.
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When we emphasise concepts over facts we open up opportunities for students to follow their own interests in connection to the concepts. Concepts=Inquiry
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When concepts are emphasised over content there so many pathways and ideas students may investigate through a conceptual lens. It is crucial teachers allow time for students to pursue their own inquiries. This respects students’ and provides motivation for further discoveries.
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"When we neglect to see who children really are, we deprive ourselves of deeper sources of delight. .... Becoming a careful observer of young children reminds us that what might seem ordinary at a superficial glance is actually quite extraordinary" Deb Curtis and Maggie Carter
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Planning and teaching for inquiry responds to students' ideas, questions and understanding. It's NOT a planner filled out before the unit begins which becomes a check list of activities to get through rather than an organic document. Planning has to be adaptable and flexible.
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Report writing time again. So much time taken to write, edit and read reports. When schools share so much ongoing learning with parents, valuable learning that demonstrates progress. Do we still need report cards? What is their purpose? Hoping these questions are being discussed.
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Thought for the day, what is important, what matters, who decides?
Quote from Professor Seymour Papert:
“At best, schools teach one-billionth of one percent of what knowledge exists in the universe, yet we quibble endlessly over what one-billionth of one percent is important.”
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Revisiting
@kjinquiry
"Inquiry comes from a deeper commitment to reflective, process orientated learning. The inquirer...sees...their learning as a work in progress. They are driven.. not to ...conquer...knowledge but to make meaning of the ever changing knowledge landscape"
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It is important we understand the 'why' of what we do, not just the how.
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I was reminded of this through a memory from Facebook. Such an essential quote from the inspiring Sir Ken Robinson for us all to remember and worth reposting. To all the teachers, thank you for all your creativity... thought for the day
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This month marks 10 years for Innovative Global Education, to all the wonderful educators and partner schools out there we have had and continue to have the pleasure of collaborating with thank you so much. It has been such a rewarding experience and I am forever grateful.
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Why do we teach conceptually? It is so important to understand the 'why' of what we do before jumping into the what and how.
#conceptsinaction
#transfer
#inquiry
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Teaching is hard, it is something you do because you are passionate about it, it is more than a job. As the calendar year ends a big shout out to all the passionate educators who despite all circumstances thrown at them have continued to show their students they care about them.
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In schools can we worry less about content to be learnt and instead look at things through a focus on critical thinking, curiosity, bias, perspective, empathy, creativity, understanding, ways of knowing and evaluation of media. Time to shift the focus...
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Criteria for Conceptual Units
As you are planning or considering the next unit of learning, you may find this criteria useful.
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I have been revisiting what "Conceptual Inquiry" is and what it involves. Ideas to consider when focussing on concepts and inquiry. How do these ideas connect to the learning?
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""Learning loss" is not a real thing. It's an invention of the standardized testing crowd. If it's so fragile that a few months, or even a year, will cause it to somehow disappear, it was never learned..."The Concept of "Learning Loss" is Complete BS
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Here we go again with report cards. Is it worth the time? I'm talking to teachers who are again writing report cards, they then have to read through another colleagues, then they are read by someone in admin. Is the time spent worth the information it provides?
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What is the role of the teacher in conceptual inquiry? 'Taking the Complexity Out of Concepts' how do you connect students to the concepts? How do you promote thinking around the concepts?
#CBTL
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Ideas to consider when building conceptual understanding.
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Stunning
'You Blew Me Away' by sculptor Penny Hardy, sculpture made from
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scrap metal
#WomensArt
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So excited to be collaborating with my long term mentor and friend
@kjinquiry
on this webinar where we build on from our last collaboration to look at engagements that focus on conceptual inquiry to move beyond activities. Hope to see many of you there.
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Feedback that moves learners forward. "Feedback should be more work for the recipient than the donor" Dylan Wiliam
NEW! One-pager summarising feedback to help move learners forward. Featuring work & ideas from the excellent:
@dylanwiliam
@KateJones_teach
@RonBergerEL
@teacherhead
@m_chiles
@AlexJQuigley
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"Learning takes place through joint activities and interaction with others..emergent curriculum involves children and teachers in a process of co-construction." Child Initiated Play and Learning Teacher-Framed Documentation and Reflection via
@DianeKashin1
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Involving parents in play to understand how through play we learn, research, develop theories and investigate at Jakarta Intercultural School.
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Inquiry involves students's questions, wonderings, theories and interests. Educators find ways to collect these and incorporate them into the learning. Ask students "How can you find out?" There is not point collecting and displaying questions if nothing is done with them.
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We've been updating our criteria for what makes a unit of learning worth being involved in for students. The criteria of course can be changed and added to and should be adapted to include your students' thoughts after all they are the biggest stakeholders in their learning.
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Discussing the importance of not over planning with a group of teachers and ensuring that we leave room for student inquiries. Respecting their interests and questions.
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The power of questioning was evident throughout the Opal School. Questions where there is no right answer, extend thinking, provide opportunities to reflect, promote creativity, act as invitations and value the competency of children. Thank you for sharing
@OpalSchool
#wonderment
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I have been using these questions before beginning planning units with teachers. It is so important to reflect on the units of learning (teachers/students) before we start planning to ensure meaningful and relevant learning.
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To those who are unable to again see family and friends due to travel restrictions, quarantine and other factors my thoughts are with you. It is not easy to be separated from loved ones for so long.
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For those looking for thinking tools for deep reflection, if you do not already have it
@kjinquiry
"Take a Moment' has many examples that can be adapted and or used as they are to promote student thinking and reflection.
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"The Kindergarten Program" Ontario Public Service. Traditional Planning v's Inquiry "The focus of inquiries emerges out of children’s thinking, wonderings, and theories, as well as ideas that pique their interest." p.27 and share misconceptions about play
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Essential to reflect on learning to ensure it connects to young children's world and provides scope for wonderment and curiosity. Revisiting these questions developed by
@AnnevanDam1966
and myself with EY educators. How do they connect to the learning you invite children to?
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Can we stop comparing the wrong behavior of adults to children “they are like squabbling children” “so childish” children are intelligent beings who continue to inspire me with their insights and their empathy and understanding of others.
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Looking forward to session 2 today with
@AnnevanDam1966
where we continue to explore the role of theory building and conceptual learning with young children. Last week we examined what sort of learning we need to take into consideration with young children.
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Been developing units of learning with the below criteria. Today we're planning the unit to focus on conceptual understanding, inquiry, agency and differentiation. Always ensuring we make room in our planning to co-construct with our learners. Planning in response and not for.
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Reading an article where a teacher did activities connected to the weekly shape, number, letter, color.. what if children already know some or all of these, why would they want to spend a week on it? What if the get it on the first day? Why do it for another four?
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Value student questions, wonderings and theories by leaving space in the planning (planning unfolds in response) and providing opportunities and experiences for students to answer and explore them. Inquiry is about co constructing and negotiating the learning with students.
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Shifting from topics to concepts promotes student inquiry. We can learn a lot of facts about a topic, however if learning conceptually students can approach it through different lenses and have choice. They are not limited by a topic and it promotes transfer of understanding.
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"Fill classrooms with the kind of complexity that invites inquiry..provide children with interesting materials, seductive details..desirable difficulty..make sure students encounter objects, texts, environments..ideas that will draw them in and pique their curiosity" Susan Engel
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"The road to learning starts with a willingness to admit what you don’t know and an interest in learning new things." This is likely the No. 1 thing affecting your job performance
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'inquiry is not a linear step-by-step process, but rather a cluster of overlapping processes that can be utilised, combined and revisited'
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In conceptual inquiry the concepts drive the learning, students and teachers are all collaborating to co-construct meaning and build on their prior knowledge. It provides scope for students to follow their own interests and to be involved in relevant learning that is authentic.
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What is the role of summative assessments? I continue to consider this in my work with educators. Thoughts?
#assessment
#formative
#learning
#application
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Teachers need time to reflect, share, plan and see each other as pedagogical leaders. Providing time for this is key to both teacher and student learning. How is reflection and time for this built into teachers' time? How much is this valued in schools?
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It has been a long time in the making, postponed last May due to the pandemic, today we launch the IGE "Materiality, Creativity and the Thinking Child" Conference. A wonderful line of presenters who will challenge our thinking around how we use materials with young children.
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Wonderful 2 days of collaboration, learning and constructing meaning at the IGE workshops in Beijing. Big thanks to
@CISBeijing
for hosting, to
@BQDressler
,
@zinnfi
,
@AnnevanDam1966
@SaraKAhmed
and Linda Li for inspiring so many and to all the participants for their dedication.
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Play is best..."school readiness means that the school has to be ready for different types of children. Not that the child must be prepared to be ready for the school."
Experts: For Early Childhood, Play Is Best. via
@forbes
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Many concepts can be explored when curating artefacts in a bag that students can touch, wonder and be curious about. Identity Journeys Perspective Culture.... any other ideas?
#conceptsinaction
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What does pedagogical documentation mean to you? It was great to provoke thinking and ideas around pedagogical documentation with the KG team at KAUST, building on this quote from
@DianeKashin1
from the article
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Building understanding through continuous assessment. Students can provide evidence of their learning at different levels showing how they are developing their conceptual understanding. Enabling teachers and students to provide feedback for the next steps.
#assessment
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Excited to look at "What's Worth Learning?" tomorrow with the Melbourne PYP Network with over 90 educators. We will look at the role of curriculum, how to make units of inquiry more transdisciplinary, and what it means to focus the learning on transdisciplinarity.
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A Provoking Post on Provocations "instead of seeing a provocation as a display for children, that teachers see themselves as “provocateurs”, one who “complicates” the child’s already complex thinking processes (New, 1998, p. 273). " via
@DianeKashin1
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Looking forward to the start of the IGE Workshops st The Australian International School
@Sungapore
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@AnnevanDam1966
@zinnfi
@makingoodhumans
@wordtorque
@LindaLiShanghai
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Thank you for pointing this my way
@jackie_becher
such an important quote, as you say "we teach children" and each of them is an individual, there is a difference btwn buying programs to support teachers and buying programs for teachers.
Dr Misty Adoniou: "Every school must stop buying programs and instead invest in professional learning for their teachers."
#PETAA2020
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For all the amazing women educators out there who worry if they are ready for a leadership role and think they are not qualified enough... you are.
Too many people — especially women — only apply for jobs they’re overqualified for.
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"The term agency comes from the Latin agere, meaning “to set in motion.” It is precisely what agency should do in our classrooms: empower learners so that their minds and hearts become the engines that drive learning in our classrooms." Paul Emerich France
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Always coming back to these questions that were developed as a collaboration between myself and the very clever
@AnnevanDam1966
What sort of learning is important for young children?
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"Students can no longer be the recipients of a pre-planned education; instead, they need to become active owners of their learning (Zhao, 2011). Personalized learning is not done to students. It is done by students. "
@ASCD
@YongZhaoEd
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How often do we give students choice in their learning? Choice in what they learn? Choice in how they learn? Choice in when they learn? Who dictates the learning? Interest and choice = motivation.
#differentiation
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Great session with KG parents
#KAUST
. Should school look the same as when you went to school? How is play and inquiry research? Children wonder, experiment, develop theories, learn life long skills. Then time for their inquiry, great spaghetti towers. How were you an inquirer?
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Thank you for the share
@JenniferWathall
a wonderful updated concept map by Carol Anne Tomlinson thank you
@cat3y
looking at the principles and beliefs of differentiation. "Differentiation is a teachers' proactive response to learner needs shaped by mindset."
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Interesting read..
"Postpandemic schooling needs to take a less-is-more approach. The adult anxiety around “learning loss” is completely tied to the “quantity over quality” approach to curriculum and standards that plagues our education system."
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What an incredible legacy he leaves behind.. books that have been and will continue to be enjoyed by children globally.
Eric Carle, Author of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ Dies at 91
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What does a continuum of understanding look like? How do we build conceptual understanding over time, leading to deep learning and transfer? Adapted from Webb's Depth of Knowledge. Thoughts?
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Do your units of learning enable students to follow their own interests/theories? Is there opportunities for students to be innovative/creative? Do students have the chance to use what they have learnt in meaningful ways? IGE criteria for a unit of learning.
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There is so much negativity in the world right now. I suggest everyone reach out into their community to find people and organisations who are doing things to help, small or big. Let students see and hear that. You never know what action that may spark. Community outreach.
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"I hope that in 2020 more early childhood educators will find their voice. I hope that they will embrace a way of being that reflects a progressive, social constructivist stance." 2020 Visioning in Early Learning: My One Word for the Year via
@DianeKashin1
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"What stories live in the materials?" Materials and artefacts are an excellent way to promote creativity and thinking around storytelling.
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Redesigning playgrounds to promote risk taking. 'purposeful risky play promotes resilience and builds more self-reliant young people' Would You Let Your Kid Play in a “Risky” Playground? via
@ArchDigest
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"quality block play..develop knowledge and skills that are foundational for understanding language, science..math concepts and processes." Blocks are Essential for Play and Learning: Every Learning Environment Should Have Many of Them! via
@DianeKashin1
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Thought for the day: Building conceptual understanding for transfer and application of learning. How do you promote the transfer and application of learning?
#conceptsinaction
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It is important before any learning that we (teachers/students) discuss the purpose of the learning and the value of it. If we cannot articulate why students are learning something maybe we need to rethink what we are focussing on. Questions to consider for learning.
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