As the bell rang, the teacher entered the classroom. Imagine what she must have seen? The class was cheerful. The class was impatient. The class was so excited. Why was it so...?
We believe that this unusual optimism was due to the implementation of Principles of Learning. PoL provides additional insight into what makes students learn most effectively. The principles has helped us in raising the students' interest and outlook towards coming to school- ready to learn new things each day. Above all the learning standards have also increased.
We initiated with working on a few PoLs. To make learning social, more pair-works, groups-works etc. were designed in which students started learning together, helping each other, giving feedbacks and it was quite productive. That's how the unseen barriers between struggling learners and quick learners started to vanish. Also, the culture of collaboration in classroom is developing. Now students attempt to find solutions among themselves.
Another principle that learning takes time also proved to be more results-driving. We started giving more wait-time investing extra periods to practice difficult topics which needs continuous efforts like drafting speeches and essays.
Thirdly, following "Autonomy is crucial" was really helpful as this was expected to make students work easier- struggling students now have a fair chance to face success since, they choose what they're comfortable with. For quick-learners, it proved to be more challenging because they're pushed to think forward.
This transition in mindset of students is not achieved in a couple of days. It took nearly 5 months to reach here. We believe it became possible just after implement PoL in our school.
Again, the bell rang, there was same excitement among young learners.... The teacher at the door amused what will be the scene after next 5 months...
Written by Alifya M. Husain, Umaima Lugmani and yushi Mogra from MHSSS
We believe that this unusual optimism was due to the implementation of Principles of Learning. PoL provides additional insight into what makes students learn most effectively. The principles has helped us in raising the students' interest and outlook towards coming to school- ready to learn new things each day. Above all the learning standards have also increased.
We initiated with working on a few PoLs. To make learning social, more pair-works, groups-works etc. were designed in which students started learning together, helping each other, giving feedbacks and it was quite productive. That's how the unseen barriers between struggling learners and quick learners started to vanish. Also, the culture of collaboration in classroom is developing. Now students attempt to find solutions among themselves.
Another principle that learning takes time also proved to be more results-driving. We started giving more wait-time investing extra periods to practice difficult topics which needs continuous efforts like drafting speeches and essays.
Thirdly, following "Autonomy is crucial" was really helpful as this was expected to make students work easier- struggling students now have a fair chance to face success since, they choose what they're comfortable with. For quick-learners, it proved to be more challenging because they're pushed to think forward.
This transition in mindset of students is not achieved in a couple of days. It took nearly 5 months to reach here. We believe it became possible just after implement PoL in our school.
Again, the bell rang, there was same excitement among young learners.... The teacher at the door amused what will be the scene after next 5 months...
Written by Alifya M. Husain, Umaima Lugmani and yushi Mogra from MHSSS
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