Good Day KPS Families!
At this time of year both teachers and students become quite reflective about their learning!
(Thank you Thomas PR for allowing us to use your reflection on presenting to the Junior School Assembly! :))
Reflections are an important part of learning these days- both in schools and the work place……………it’s no longer good enough to expect children to finish a task and put their book away. Teachers encourage students to reflect on their learning and share their thinking with others. How did you work that out? What worked well for you? How could you solve that problem a different way? What might you do next time to make your work better? What does better look like?
These kind of questions also promote collaboration (Remember this is one of
the necessary 21st Century skills!)
What have we been learning and why?
How how I learnt it?
What do I need to learn next?
All three questions are on the teachers’ and student’s minds as we conclude this semester!
It is a Learner Profile attribute and a main concept of our IB PYP Programme!
Reflection can also be explained more academically………
- Reflection is a meaning-making process that moves a learner from one experience into the next with deeper understanding of its relationships with and connections to other experiences and ideas. It is the thread that makes continuity of learning possible, and ensures the progress of the individual and, ultimately, society. It is a means to essentially moral ends.
- Reflection is a systematic, rigorous, disciplined way of thinking, with its roots in scientific inquiry.
- Reflection needs to happen in community, in interaction with others.
- Reflection requires attitudes that value the personal and intellectual growth of oneself and of other s.
Here are some examples of the kind of reflections witnessed this week……..
