Sunday 10 February 2013

Democratic School group visit

Dawn's democratise school group came to talk to our staff about how we can collborate and incorporate their ideas in our programmes as my principal is open to some of their stuff and there is common ground.
It set up for the start of a year in the direction I would like to be going and made an interesting day!
I very much like the "takes a village" approach!
I am very interested in the opportunities to personalise learning so children could get more input/choice about what they want to learn. They can be then more intrinsically motivated to learn which is as it should be! (instead of them having to do what everyone else has to do which is not a natural way to learn  and not ideal!)
If I can find some one to take a group of wee kids and teach them how to sew or braid or fix a car then GREAT! - my job would be to integrate that through my planning into what I am required by the government to report on for National standards.
The  freedom, support and resources to do that would be fantastic!