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Friday, 1 June 2018

The process not the end product




Learn, Create, Share - Easy you say - you learn, you create something, you share it. Easy for some.
In the past, we as students spent all our time learning, we didn't really get the chance to create and we hardly ever shared our work - other than with our teacher. Then some of us become  enthusiastic teachers.  Over time, gone were the old ways of teaching - inquiry is the new buzz word with the children creating  the end product out of their learning. Let the children become the the agents of their own learning. Some teachers couldn't make that change - couldn't relinquish the power, some saw the ideology and muddled on through and some  soared like eagles. I was one of those teachers who struggled with the creating part. I saw the power in letting the students become agents of their own learning, but I am just not a creative person, how does one  enthuse creativity when that is so foreign.
Then came the digital age now it seems easier to create and to share, but as with "publishing" some children never seem to get there. I now see that I have been stuck at the polished end product phase and not celebrating the process the children go through to get their end product.  The discussion of removing the barriers that developed from a conversation is what struck a cord with me. I am going to spend more time developing my students  confidence in their ability and not be hung up on the end product as much. Now don't think I am going to can the end product, just differentiate it to meet the students needs - now where have I heard that before. 

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