Category Archives: Child centered learning

How could I develop my space?

Over the last week or so it has been decided that I will be spending my second year teaching year 4, although I will be working with a completely new team. I have much to reflect on to inform my practice next year, but I have already decided something I want to work on is [...]

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Problems with timetabled learning

Tweet from @ianaddison: Tweet from ian addison(@ianaddison) Fave QCA example: We must do 6 weeks of email in year 3. 6 weeks!!! @charliedeane’s sch does it as part of her egypt topic! #ukedchat
I noticed this tweet this evening and it really got me thinking. The idea of doing email in a discrete unit [...]

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Let’s let students manage real world distractions

Since my recent post on the iPad I have been reading a number of reviews linked to educational use. I keep coming across an assertion that really annoys me, and I think has implications fat wider for education than Apple’s latest shiny device does.
That assertion is that the interface of the iPad only [...]

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Documenting negotiated projects

For the last two weeks I have been working with a different group on a negotiated project, as part of our Learning Agreement Time. I was really pleased that this was the first project which has been totally child initiated. Whilst completing the previous project, a girl in my class approached me and said she [...]

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Can we ‘unplan’ the KS2 curriculum?

In my transition from PGCE student to NQT one of the big changes I have had to get to grips with is that of going from producing Osfted style lesson plans for every lesson, to a real world situation where time is at a premium and less detail is possible.
In the last few weeks I [...]

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Negotiated projects and Random Activity Generator

Since blogging (Pt1, and Pt2)about my efforts to create a framework to scaffold our negotiated projects I have worked with one group who produced a play for our Reception classes. Over the two week period we had a lot of time for reflection. Some of this was facilitated half way through execution of the project [...]

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Scaffolding negotiated projects (part II)

I began work today with my focus group for Learning Agreement time, and after my reflections yesterday I decided to use the session to test the water a bit in terms of their thinking. We discussed some previous Learning Agreement Projects they had undertaken, and what they thought they had got out of them. This [...]

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Scaffolding negotiated projects

This year at our school we have been working on implementing negotiated learning in Key Stage 2. For the past few years our school has been introducing the use of curriculum content negotiated with the children from the Foundation stage up, and this approach has this year been introduced in Year 2. Further up the [...]

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What is collaboration?

Some thoughts and musings on what defines truly collaborative work.

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