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Through the eyes of a child National Jewish Education Conference for Primary School Teachers 20th January 2015 Welcome and introduce Alison and myself if necessary. Taking what we have to teach as a given, the session will look at how we can teach – pedagogy- so that the greatest learning takes place.

Starting with the child Look at the photos – what do you notice about the children? Fully engaged, happy, interested, motivated, making meaning, transferring knowledge to different situations, active, sharing the experience with their peers

How do children learn? ‘The ways in which the child engages with other people and their environment - playing and exploring, active learning , and creating and thinking critically – underpin learning and development across all areas and support the child to remain an effective and motivated learner’ (Development matters in the EYFS 2014) Playing and exploring – engagement Active learning – motivation Creating and thinking critically - thinking Look at the EYFS document – along with early learning goals and development matters which relate to what we expect children to be able to do by the time they leave Reception class and the ages at which learning and development takes place, also talks about how children learn.

Playing and Exploring engagement Active Learning motivation A Unique Child: observing how a child is learning Positive Relationships: what adults could do Enabling Environments: what adults could provide Playing and Exploring engagement Finding out and exploring • Showing curiosity about objects, events and people • Using senses to explore the world around them • Engaging in open-ended activity • Showing particular interests • Play with children. Encourage them to explore, and show your own interest in discovering new things. • Help children as needed to do what they are trying to do, without taking over or directing. • Join in play sensitively, fitting in with children’s ideas. • Model pretending an object is something else, and help develop roles and stories. • Encourage children to try new activities and to judge risks for themselves. Be sure to support children’s confidence with words and body language. • Pay attention to how children engage in activities --the challenges faced, the effort, thought, learning and enjoyment. Talk more about the process than products. • Talk about how you and the children get better at things through effort and practice, and what we all can learn when things go wrong. • Provide stimulating resources which are accessible and open-ended so they can be used, moved and combined in a variety of ways. • Make sure resources are relevant to children’s interests. • Arrange flexible indoor and outdoor space and resources where children can explore, build, move and role play. • Help children concentrate by limiting noise, and making spaces visually calm and orderly. • Plan first-hand experiences and challenges appropriate to the development of the children. • Ensure children have uninterrupted time to play and explore. Playing with what they know • Pretending objects are things from their experience • Representing their experiences in play • Taking on a role in their play • Acting out experiences with other people Being willing to ‘have a go’ • Initiating activities • Seeking challenge • Showing a ‘can do’ attitude • Taking a risk, engaging in new experiences, and learning by trial and error Active Learning motivation Being involved and concentrating • Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time • Showing high levels of energy, fascination • Not easily distracted • Paying attention to details Support children to choose their activities – what they want to do and how they will do it. • Stimulate children’s interest through shared attention, and calm over-stimulated children. • Help children to become aware of their own goals, make plans, and to review their own progress and successes. Describe what you see them trying to do, and encourage children to talk about their own processes and successes. • Be specific when you praise, especially noting effort such as how the child concentrates, tries different approaches, persists, solves problems, and has new ideas. • Encourage children to learn together and from each other. • Children develop their own motivations when you give reasons and talk about learning, rather than just directing • Children will become more deeply involved when you provide something that is new and unusual for them to explore, especially when it is linked to their interests. • Notice what arouses children’s curiosity, looking for signs of deep involvement to identify learning that is intrinsically motivated. • Ensure children have time and freedom to become deeply involved in activities. • Children can maintain focus on things that interest them over a period of time. Help them to keep ideas in mind by talking over photographs of their previous activities. • Keep significant activities out instead of routinely tidying them away. • Make space and time for all children to contribute. Keeping on trying • Persisting with activity when challenges occur • Showing a belief that more effort or a different approach will pay off • Bouncing back after difficulties Enjoying achieving what they set out to do • Showing satisfaction in meeting their own goals • Being proud of how they accomplished something – not just the end result • Enjoying meeting challenges for their own sake rather than external rewards or praise From the EYFS document – explains what is meant by engagement, motivation and thinking in terms of what the child might be doing. Also gives examples and ideas of what the adult can do and provide to facilitate the way in which the child is learning. Need to remember that EYFS advocates children-led as well as adult-led learning and so that many of the points here are more applicable to supporting children in child-led activities. However there are some that can be useful eg In terms of motivation , we can help -Children develop their own motivations when you give reasons and talk about learning, rather than just directing . Children will learn better if they know and understand why they need to do the things we ask them to do. Learning to read a language which they don’t speak is challenging and we need to make children excited and motivated to learn to read Hebrew

Creating and Thinking Critically thinking A Unique Child: observing how a child is learning Positive Relationships: what adults could do Enabling Environments: what adults could provide Creating and Thinking Critically thinking Having their own ideas • Thinking of ideas • Finding ways to solve problems • Finding new ways to do things • Use the language of thinking and learning: think, know, remember, forget, idea, makes sense, plan, learn, find out, confused, figure out, trying to do. • Model being a thinker, showing that you don’t always know, are curious and sometimes puzzled, and can think and find out. • Encourage open-ended thinking by not settling on the first ideas: What else is possible? • Always respect children’s efforts and ideas, so they feel safe to take a risk with a new idea. • Talking aloud helps children to think and control what they do. Model self-talk, describing your actions in play. • Give children time to talk and think. • Value questions, talk, and many possible responses, without rushing toward answers too quickly. • Support children’s interests over time, reminding them of previous approaches and encouraging them to make connections between their experiences. • Model the creative process, showing your thinking about some of the many possible ways forward. • Sustained shared thinking helps children to explore ideas and make links. Follow children’s lead in conversation, and think about things together. • Encourage children to describe problems they encounter, and to suggest ways to solve the problem. • Show and talk about strategies – how to do things –including problem-solving, thinking and learning. • Give feedback and help children to review their own progress and learning. Talk with children about what they are doing, how they plan to do it, what worked well and what they would change next time. • Model the plan-do-review process yourself. • In planning activities, ask yourself: Is this an opportunity for children to find their own ways to represent and develop their own ideas? Avoid children just reproducing someone else’s ideas. • Build in opportunities for children to play with materials before using them in planned tasks. • Play is a key opportunity for children to think creatively and flexibly, solve problems and link ideas. Establish the enabling conditions for rich play: space, time, flexible resources, choice, control, warm and supportive relationships. • Recognisable and predictable routines help children to predict and make connections in their experiences. • Routines can be flexible, while still basically orderly. • Plan linked experiences that follow the ideas children are really thinking about. • Use mind-maps to represent thinking together. • Develop a learning community which focuses on how and not just what we are learning. Making links • Making links and noticing patterns in their experience • Making predictions • Testing their ideas • Developing ideas of grouping, sequences, cause and effect Choosing ways to do things • Planning, making decisions about how to approach a task, solve a problem and reach a goal • Checking how well their activities are going • Changing strategy as needed • Reviewing how well the approach worked Not all children learn in the same way, as we will see shortly. We can help children work out for themselves how they learn best and that is part of thinking critically – a really important skill. Show and talk about strategies – how to do things –including problem-solving, thinking and learning. These ideas might seem as if you are having to do more work in the classroom when there doesn’t seem to be enough time to do what you feel you have to do, but sometimes by stepping back and looking at how you teach, your methods and resources, will allow you to make changes which will enable you and the chidren to use the little time you have more productively.

The Pedagogical Continuum Myths That didactic teaching in the early years produces greater academic skills and outcomes That play and personalised learning is a free for all without intention or explicit planned teaching That play based learning has no intention or teacher direction That play based learning does not produce outcomes or meet standards

Active learners It is not what we do to the child or for the child that educates him, but what we enable him to do for himself, to see and learn and feel and understand for himself. The child grows by his own efforts and his own real experience Susan Isaacs What is involved in active learning Being involved and concentrating Keeping trying Enjoying achieving what they set out to do Examples of learning environment

Children learn in different ways Visual auditory kinaesthetic or tactile We all have preferred ways of receiving information and using it. Think about the arrival of a new peice of equipment. How would you prefer to learn how to use it. Do you read the manual, look at the pictures, ask someone to explain how to use it or just play around with it? If you like pictures, tables, graphs etc you are probably a visual learner. If you like to read a text or be told how to use the equipmetn then you are an auditory learner, but if you like to try it out and play around with the dials etc, you are probably a kinaesthetic learner. Many of us use a combination. We need to consider what we want children to learn and then offer different experiences which will help them to do this. While some children may delight in colouring in bet carefully in the lines, for others that activity would alienate them from learning the letter. They would rather run around the garden finding all the letters bet hanging form a tree, or sing a song about the sound that bet makes. We need to find each child’s path and use it. We need to consider what they need to learn, not worry about what means they are using to learn it. No one way is better than another. Hand over to Alison Revisit this slide before talking about teaching parsha When teaching parsha what is the aim – children should know the story line, enjoy learning Torah stories, learn mitzvot and midot from the story. What is the purpose of the parsha project children take home. Need to think about the balance of process and product. The end product is there either as an aide memoire to retell the story or as something that can be used for a mitzvah relating to the parsha. How could you best use the time taken to produce the end product? How much do children get out of colouring in a picture – many boys find it painful and for many girls it is an opportunity to be creative and peaceful.

Opportunities for the visual learner Make books for each parsha. Resources exist on echinuch that can be used. Use the pictures to make simple or complex puzzles, sequencing activities, powerpoint presentations. You are only limited by your imagination

Other ideas for sedra projects Acting out the story line allows the children to go over the story, be more involved in it- very important for kinaesthetic learners. Photos from the acting out will provide an aide memoire and will probably be more meaningful for children. Can be improved by getting children dressed up. ‘experiencing’ a part of the story will also have a longer lasting memory trace as physical movement has been involved and neural connections have been made.

In conclusion...... Children learn in different ways so we need to provide different resources and learning experiences. Find out how your individual children learn best and support them in their preferred method. Learning still needs to be playful – young children learn best through play Children don’t all need to be doing the same thing or even taking the same sedra ‘picture’ home.