Designing our own classroom
We have been redesigning our classroom. Here are some of our great ideas.
Our brief was to make improvements to our physical environment. We came up with some very clever ideas that will be implimented.
Creative Learning
Creative Learning What? – Children have been learning to creatively elaborate on their ideas. Why? – Studies show that creative elaboration is declining significantly in children and adults. Creative elaboration is when you take an idea and expand on it in an interesting and novel way. This is especially worrying because creative elaboration is a better predictor of real world achievement than test scores. How? – We started by providing children with a variety of topic choices. This gave children choice and some control over the topics making this a more playful experience. For example, design a playground that would be fun for Bromley school children, design a robot to complete your homework, design a bug catcher, make a catapult that will work out of ice cream sticks etc We also share three unrelated pictures and simply state, “What if....” - Children had to state the what it is, how it works and why it was or is a good d...
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