RPI Day 8 - Creating

Creativity is a huge part of learning. By engaging learners through creative tasks and getting them to share what they have learned helps solidly their learning. With this comes agency, we should give our learners the opportunity to make choices about their learning.

These tasks don't need to be long. They can be short smaller activities throughout the lesson that keep learners engaged and having fun.

Linking tasks such as creating something and then using that to create a labelled diagram. There are two forms of design, tighter and looser. Tighter refers to constraining their create in some way such as giving a template or stencil to use. Verses looser, which means allowing them to have more agency in their learning.

Creating a One Shot Film

I thoroughly enjoyed today's lesson as it was engaging and fun. We made small videos, created illustrations for poems and reflected on our goals. Creating is not only engaging for teachers but for learners as well. By giving multiple creative opportunities for learners, we will engage the learners and allow them to show their learning. 

My goals are:

• Allow for more creative opportunities in lessons (short create tasks throughout).
• More collaboration tasks
• Change the types of create tasks and incorporate a wide variety of platforms to use (ie. video, voice recording, plays/skits, animations, etc).

Staff Planning Meeting

As a staff we had a planning meeting to prepare for Term 4. This is our second planning meeting and they have aided me by enabling myself to make connections to the term's topic in all areas of the curriculum. 

Next term we will be planning collaboratively as a syndicate. This will be a great opportunity to learn off my colleagues and develop both my content knowledge and teaching ideas.

Link to my notes 

Term 4 planning:

Term 3 Planning (staff meeting):

Term 3 Planning with the syndicate: