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Welcome to the key wiki of Toko School. 2010.
It highlights our learning around the new curriculum.
There are many links to the left to follow. But just thought before you go! 10 ways to put more joy into learning is as relevant in 2010 as 2009 ( and before of course). But with our renewed focus on integrating IT, using wikis and blogs, look at how numbers 1,2,3,4,5 and 9 could all link directly to this 2010 goal.
10 ways to put more joy into learning.
1Give Students Choice. How much choice ( or ‘ownership’) do students have about their learning? Students can be given choices during the school day. Students can be given choice in their studies, the questions they want to explore, and how they wish to express their ideas. Schooling ought to inspire children to ask questions able to design their own tasks.
2Let Students Create Things. People like to make stuff. Creating something original gives us a tremendous sense of agency and pride. As well, creating things gives us an appreciation of the creative process in action.
3Show off Students Work. Our schools, and classrooms, should be brimming with wonderful, original student work. Classrooms should ’speak’ to visitors.
4Take Time to Tinker. We all learn by fooling around. Student’s imaginative ideas , their intuitive leaps of imagination, should be encouraged. All too often our schools are too planned, leaving no room for spontaneity. We need to free teachers to take risks, experiment, to play with the art of pedagogy, and to feel the joy that comes from such on open approach to teaching.
5 Make school Places Inviting. All spaces, including web places, inside and outside of schools, need to be seen as learning spaces.
6Get Outside. More of the school day should be outside. Fresh air and a sunny day can do miracles for the human spirit. Children need to have their sensory awareness expanded.To sit under a tree to read, draw, think, or talk. Much of our science could directly include the outdoors. Ecosystems are all around.
7Read Good Books. Make sharing good literature an important feature of all classrooms. Give students time to share their own stories. All study topics have themes which provide opportunities to introduce good literature.
8More Physical Education and Arts. In America many students have no art, music, and drama and little time for PE. For many students these are the areas that many children have strengths in and gain joy from.
9Transform Assessment. Assessment is a part of life and students need to see it as an important part of the learning process. We should make more use of immediate feedback, narrative assessment, self assessment, portfolios of authentic work, presentations, exhibitions and performances.
10Have Fun Together. Teachers need to take a break from the seriousness of the school day and have some fun together. Anything that tears down the walls that often get built inside schools and builds more caring relationships is to be encouraged
Wolk concludes by referring back to John Dewey quote and says that schools can sap our souls is just as true for teachers as it is for students
If principals can help teachers find joy in their work, and help their teachers strive to ‘own their own teaching’ the teachers can enter their rooms every morning enthusiastic to help their students experience joy in their learning.
Please read and contribute to content in the margins and below. So far this wiki is about these Toko School initiatives...
new curriculum
writing professional development
reading documentation update
science curriculum update
Stars updated to revise school charter to be more in line with NZC. The STARS section of the charter is attached , bottom of page.
The Toko School charter was updated in August 2008 to better reflect the intent of the new curriculum.
The Charter now makes reference to
Principles of the NZC
Key Competencies of the NZC
Values of the NZC
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