Action

Since the beginning of the year action has been at the forefront of my mind. Whilst trying to create a classroom that engages learners, balances the three aspects of agency and provides opportunities for deep conceptual understanding I have also been actively taking steps to create room for action. And there has been small scale action, and wonderful ideas of action that lacked follow through by students, but nothing that everyone got behind, that really impacted the community. So I have decided to give it more focus in our classroom. Our new unit is a focus on choices and action by humans to find ways to manage waste and sustain resources. As a part of our initial provocation I asked students to visually represent the concept – environment, whilst taking part in the observation stage learners noticed a lot of rubbish left in the playground after lunch. This made room for descriptive writing opportunities – what did our playground look like before / after humans interacted with it. The learners have decided to take action with a display board within the school. We have big ideas – and this time there will be the follow through.