Primary 7 have been working for the past 4 weeks on their personal learning project.
They were responsible for deciding a context for learning, generating their own learning intentions and success criteria and planning and assessing their own learning.
Of course Miss Thomson has been continuing to teach numeracy and literacy but has taken on the role as “facilitator” of learning during the personal project, instead of actually teaching areas like social studies, ICT and expressive arts.
“I like the freedom.” Ellie
“We get to decide what we do, when we do and who we do it with.” Eva
“We get to work at our own pace.” Marc
“We are able to move freely and choose when we do stuff” Ben
“I think we are learning better this way because we can work at our own level and challenge ourselves. We get better and longer 1-1 time with the teacher during literacy and maths instead of rushing.” Paul
“I understand maths and language better now.”
“I get to apply my skills in other areas.”
”I love seeing the class work on something that they have chosen themselves and take great pride over. I do feel like I have more time to teach groups literacy and numeracy. The thing I struggle with the most is taking a backseat and not ‘teaching’ all of the time. This does give me time to observe, take notes, watch, assess, check the Es and Os on the google classroom, consider information for transition, conference with pupils, blog, take pictures, make videos of work, plan and prepare accordingly. The projects are coming along well and I’m excited for the presentations during the final week.” Miss Thomson
