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How The Grade R Child Learns - Coggle Diagram
How The Grade R Child Learns
Partictipation
Participation:
-With participation Children can take part influence the outcome of certain activities.
When a child takes part in an activity, it helps them better understand the activity at hand.
The children should also be able to share their different opinions and ideas with their peers and children through encouragement as it will help them learn from others.
-All children should be included in the decision making and no one should be left out as it could lead to them not wanting to learn through participation.
Ways to encourage participation
-Empathize with others: When you approach the problem in this way, you acknowledge students' fear of being wrong and make it okay for them to respond with an incorrect answer or even an educated guess. Those initial thoughts can lead the class to meaningful discussion.
-Wait before calling: Each time when calling on someone during a small-group or whole-class lesson, take two breaths. Students benefit from that extra time to think. A Wait to Call option puts students who aren't always the first to raise their hand, ready to answer, in the position to think for a moment. Breathe deeply, and see how many more hands are raised.
-Give them a warning: Let them know in advance when you're going to ask them a question and what the question is so that they have time to think of a suitable answer.
-Anonymously participating: Having a "feelings" or "suggestion" box where students can anonymously tell the teacher how they are feeling or what they do and don't like.
Examples:
-If a student is sad or upset you need to see it from their point of view and be able to feel empathetic in order to assess the situation.
-When asking the children a question give them time to think of an answer otherwise they're less likely to participate.
Teacher Support
Teacher support
-This offers the smallest amount of participation among learners.
-This is used when information/knowledge is being taught by the teacher to the student who does not yet have the knowledge.
-Known as traditional or chalk to talk teaching.
-This is also used when children are instructed to do something.
-This doesn't always encourage participation but is still a good technique to use.
Examples:
-When starting a new topic or theme in class this would help to get the new knowledge across to the students easily with no distractions such as having the students participate.
Modelling
Modelling
-This requires very little participation.
-Children are like parrots are learn by copying the teacher and other students.
-For this to work the student must understand what the teacher is doing to.
Examples:
-This would be used for kids to obtain certain skills, basically they'd either watch another teacher or student acting and reproduce the action.
Empowering Students
Empowering Children
-As the teacher, you have the authority to shape their schooling experiences.
-The students should be encouraged to do activities where they have a bit of control.
Examples:
-Giving children a group project where they all have different roles or things to do for the project.
Facilitating
Facilitating
-When the facilitator is very pliable with their arrangement and wants lots of participation within their lessons.
Examples
-When the teacher is easy-going and allows more time for certain tasks when they start to take longer than expected.
Co-constructing
Co-constructing
-Helps children to develop their cognitive thinking
-By working as partners, the teacher helps the children to learn.
-This is not about what you understand but more so about how the group makes sense of it together.
Examples:
- When children are told to discuss certain topics in groups to see what each of their opinions are.