Thoughts & Reflections
Consider jotting down a few notes, perhaps in a journal or notebook.
Last week, we learned about creating competence by loading prior knowledge.
Here are some thoughts and questions to consider.
- Think about something new your child is about to begin learning?
- Is there relevancy and meaningfulness for your child? Discuss to make sure your child understand why the material is important. Framing.
- What are the key ideas you want your child to understand or master?
- Can you create a concrete experience to either build that prior knowledge or to get a preview of the desired learning in your child's body (e.g., a field trip, a project, an experiment, an exploration, an interview).
- Debrief the activity to make sure your child got what was intended.
- What does your child already know that is related to the topic?
- Bring up that understand and discuss it or work with it in some way. Priming.
- Where's the curiosity in the topic that your child can chase?
- Follow that curiosity
- Renegotiate what's most meaningful based on your child's input and direction
Feel free to review last week's recording where we looked at competence.
https://www.boldschoolers.com/blog/upstream-wins-or-downstream-disasters
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xo
Laura
