Project Zero Classroom Summer School on TfU 1998 2007 Understanding making it visible in your own learning What do you understand really well How did you come to that understanding ID: 510355
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An exercise in learning how we learn to understand
Project Zero Classroom
Summer School on
TfU
1998 – 2007 Slide2
Understanding : making it visible in your own learning
What do you understand really well?
How did you come to that understanding?
How do you know you understand it? Slide3
What do I understand really well?
My wife
My students
Playing drums
My students
ShoppingWhiskeyMoneyProblem solvingManagementTeach technophobic teachersCollaborationMental models
English foreign language
My job: school to school connection
How to make thinking visible
Leadership
Football
Computers
How to work in collaboration
Make food
My family
My dog
Simple mathsSlide4
How did I develop that understanding?
Experience
Being one myself i.e. student; questioning, talking formally and informally
Listening to records, practice
Do it in my teaching
Over many yearsRepetition and observationExperience
Interest
Relevance
Involvement
Care
Failing heroically; making mistakes
Reading about it
Listening to elders
Teaching
Patience; passion; enduranceSlide5
How do I know I understand my chosen topic?
Comfortable working with other musicians, can play together
Treated as an expert; asked for recommendations
Satisfied with my situation
Feedback
RelationshipLove it! Want to learn more.Reaching levels of automaticityWhen I can apply what I understand to others and they can understand
Results- outputs, spin offs, empowerment of others
Can take a mental model of the situation and operate in another
Through the actions of those impacted
Paid money; treated as expertSlide6
Implications for your teaching/learning?
Name the parts
Focus on teaching and learning; combine theory and practice
Active process
Informal and formal ways of learning
How to get them activeSlide7
Implications for student learning?