Hack Your Classroom - Week Two: Getting to know your learners...hacker style
With all this talk about having growth mindset about change and hacking the classroom and curriculum it is important that we are actually 'hacking with purpose' . We need to ensure that we are innovating to improve the learning experience and not simply innovating for innovation sake. In order to do know we are doing that, there is something we do very well - know thy learner! And I mean really KNOW THEM. Sit back right now and consider a class you teach. Reel through your class list. Do you know their PAT/AsTTle levels (irregardless if you teach them English and/or Math), their ancestry, their culture, their interests, their pass times, their learning style, favourite book, musician, 1D member? If not, why not? Can we truly personalise learning without truly knowing the learner? So what should we know about each and every learner? Well here are few suggestions to get you started: What do we know about each student's: prior learning ethnicity/culture (Ko wai?...