ACfE In Action

The excitment has begun! I am lucky enough to be working with Jennifer Daly and her lovely Primary 6 class. There is a real buzz in the classroom and everyone is keen and eager to go. The topic is World War 2 and we decided that the children should be given the choice about what they would like to learn. In order for this to be an informed choice the children were given a range of books on the War and asked to come up with no more than two aspects of the War that they would like to learn more about. Once the topics were chosen (the what), the children had to decide on the who, who were they going to work with. As we know all children have different learning styles and like to work in different ways. The result - some children are working individually, some in pairs, some in trios and there is one group of four. Interestingly Jennifer commented on how well the children chose the groups, characters who may not have worked well together have stayed apart - exactly what Jennifer would have done if she had chosen the groups! Motivation is already high as the children have chosen what they are learning and who they are learning with. Read the rest of this entry »