Arts play a significant role in early years. For early year students, the lessons will be easier to take if it's integrated with arts. Like Ms Shinta shared from the Workshop, art can be used to teach any lessons. We should encourage students to use all of the five senses as well. For instance, to practice their listening skills, we can do grouping with sound. We can give them different kinds of animal, and then let them find the group mates by using the sound of the animal.
The other example is, for physical activity, we can teach them to do Yoga based on the characters they are familiar with, such as characters in ZooTopia. Do you have any idea what arts can be embedded into your lesson? Share in the comments below.
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A lot of teachers use MindMap as one of teaching strategies; they ask the students make it to summarize lessons learned or brainstorm new topics. However, not all of them give the right instructions to the students. Even worse, some of them do not really understand the concept of MindMap.
The following slides summarize "Making PYP Happen", a document that becomes the foundation in understanding Primary Years Program in International Baccalaureate curriculum. I divided the summary into 3 parts, i.e. Beliefs and Values, Curriculum (Written, Taught, and Assessed), and also the Synthesis of all the concepts.
Collaborative planning, to me, is an art of communicating and working with others. It is frequently found in a team that instead of collaboration, competition or even quarrel occurred. To avoid this happen and maximize the potential of every team member has to be assigned different roles. Sometimes, they naturally act as a certain role which reflects their personality and their ability. In one of PD sessions, Ms Dwi presented about ideas for collaborative planning proposed by Dr Meredith Belbin. He suggests that we should create a balanced team, which consists of three parts: action-oriented roles, people-oriented roles and thought-oriented roles. After knowing the roles, we discussed with our team in grade level to identify our roles, along with the strengths and weaknesses. It turned out that everyone serves as "Plant", "Worker" and "Finisher" because we usually divide the tasks to five teachers in our grade level. Then, specifically for me, I usually become the "Team Worker" who harmonizes the group and encourages cooperation. This role suits me, who is a phlegmatic and interpersonal person. Besides figuring out our roles, we also learned the Seven Norms of Collaborative Planning, which is some tips for communicating during work collaboratively. Here they are: - Pausing before responding - Paraphrasing what others say - Probing to increase clarity of the group's thinking - Putting ideas on the table - Paying attention to self and others - Presuming positive presuppositions - Pursuing a balance between advocacy and inquiry This knowledge is very useful for us in doing collaborative planning, and also in communication generally. This also helps me in achieving one of goals I stated in my SMART Plan, i.e. to do my best in delivering my insight objectively, effectively and wisely to avoid bias. |
AuthorNajib chooses a path to be an educator, just like two Indonesian prominent scholars whose names combined into his, which are Prof. Nurcholis Majid & Emha Ainun Najib. Had been teaching Primary level students in Ananda (2013-2015) & Al-Jabr Islamic School (2015-2018), he is currently pursuing his Master's degree in University College London, majoring Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. ArchivesCategories |