This year I implemented the reading project in class 7. To be honest, I had my doubts if it will work, but to my astonishment, children grasped the idea very quickly. Moreover, it helped me to organize the lesson, and avoid the timing problem, where some pupils did their exercises in 2 minutes while the others needed 10 or 15.
From this point of view, I would say, that the practical part was the most important one.
Less succesful were my attempts to make the lesson interesting by trying to find the right content. This because it was always interesting only for half of the class (or less). Now, reflecting back and after exchanging some thoughts with other teachers, I would say, not the content itself must be interresting, but rather the form of the exercises. Children are interested simply in their own capabilities and their own progressing. They enjoy doing something new and being able to do it. The content itself becomes less relevant. It may be different in upper schools, but in my classes 6 and 7 the idea of “doing anything” was much stronger than the willingness to understand. This is a pity, because it means, that the most desired level of independent learning has not been reached . Maybe it is yet to come.
There have been many inspiring inputs and views in this course. It helped to see and understand things differently and I found so much inspiration here.
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This year I implemented the reading project in class 7. To be honest, I had my doubts if it will work, but to my astonishment, children grasped the idea very quickly. Moreover, it helped me to organize the lesson, and avoid the timing problem, where some pupils did their exercises in 2 minutes while the others needed 10 or 15.
From this point of view, I would say, that the practical part was the most important one.
Less succesful were my attempts to make the lesson interesting by trying to find the right content. This because it was always interesting only for half of the class (or less). Now, reflecting back and after exchanging some thoughts with other teachers, I would say, not the content itself must be interresting, but rather the form of the exercises. Children are interested simply in their own capabilities and their own progressing. They enjoy doing something new and being able to do it. The content itself becomes less relevant. It may be different in upper schools, but in my classes 6 and 7 the idea of “doing anything” was much stronger than the willingness to understand. This is a pity, because it means, that the most desired level of independent learning has not been reached . Maybe it is yet to come.
There have been many inspiring inputs and views in this course. It helped to see and understand things differently and I found so much inspiration here.