Foundations of Teaching and Foundations of Teaching and Learning

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Foundations of Teaching and Foundations of Teaching and  Learningg Course 1: Introduction Week 4: Continuing to Learn in a Changing World

Lecture 4.3: Outside of School

Wh  fl     d f   h  fl   i  h   When fleas are captured for the flea circus they  are placed in jars and the lids are screwed on.  When the fleas jumped in the jars  they would hit  When the fleas jumped in the jars, they would hit  their heads on the lids. They still wanted to jump  y j pj g g so they learned to jump just high enough so that  they wouldn't hit their heads. The trainer then  comes back and takes the fleas out of the jars and  puts them in the circus. Even though the fleas  now have the whole sky above them, they still do  not jump past their now self‐imposed limits. Even  not jump past their now self imposed limits  Even  though the fleas are now free, they have made the  limits truly theirs by refusing to go beyond them.  

Beyond the classroom door  What opportunities for learning exit within:

The environment? Th  h The home? ? The community? Public sites? Urban centres centres?? Urban  Countryside?

y Ghana the world

5Ws + H WHEN WHAT WHO WHY WHERE HOW

What  matters  most?

THINK PAIR  SHARE

5Ws + H WHEN WHAT WHO WHY WHERE HOW

What  matters  most?

WHO HOW WHY WHERE WHEN WHAT

MEASURED ATTAINMENT

REPRODUCTION OF THE CURRICULUM

INDIVIDUAL PUPIL WHAT

PASSIVE CONUMPTION

WHY

WHO WHERE

THE CLASSROOM SEAT

HOW

THE SCHOOL DAY

WHEN

WHERE

THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL WORLD LEARNING HOW TO LEARN

OPPORTUNSTIC LEARNING

WHEN

WHAT

HOW WHO

MULTIPLE AVENUES OF INQUIRY

WHY

COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS

LIFELONG LEARNING

School and not school School and not school Individual cognition in school versus shared  cognition outside P Pure mentation in school versus tool    i  i   h l    l  manipulation outside.  Symbol manipulation in school versus  contextualized reasoning outside  Generalized learning in school versus  situation specific competencies outside   situation‐specific competencies outside   (Carol Dweck)

THINK

PA R  PAIR  SHARE

Classroom learning

Out-of-school learning ea g

Š What hat are the connections? Š Who makes them? Š How are they made? Š How do we know know? ? Š What can you do to make the

connections?

I t lli Intelligence  is knowing is knowing  what to do what to do  when you  y don’t know  what to do Jean Piaget Jean Piaget

Foundations of Teaching and Foundations of Teaching and  Learningg Course 1: Introduction Week 4: Continuing to Learn in a Changing World

Lecture 4.3: Outside of School