Parent Focus Session 1.

Past V Present

What’s Your Stance?

What is your stance?STANCE

Today’s Classroom

Video 1. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Video 2. A Kunyung Classroom

How are the ideas presented connected to what you already knew?

What new ideas did you get that extended or broadened your thinking in new directions?

What challenges or puzzles have come up in your mind from the ideas and information presented?

Connect-Extend-Challenge

Skills needed for the 21st Century

What are the skills you use?

 

ThinkWrite three answers or ideas you have about this question or problem. PairDiscuss your ideas with a partner. Check any ideas above that your partner also wrote down.Write down ideas your partner had that you did not have here.

ShareReview all of your ideas and circle the one you think is most important. One of you will share this idea with the whole group. 

As you listen to the ideas of the whole group, write down three you liked.

 

  

Think- Pair – Share

Thinking Acquisition of knowledge; comprehension; application; analysis, synthesis, evaluation, dialectical thought, metacognition.

5 Skill Sets

Social skills

Accepting responsibility; respecting others; cooperating, resolving conflict; group decision-making; adopting a variety of group roles.

Communication skills

Listening; speaking; reading; writing; viewing; presenting; non-verbal communication.

Self – management skills

Gross motor skills; fine motor skills; spatial awareness; organization; time management; safety; healthy lifestyle; codes of behaviour; informed choices

Research skillsFormulating questions; observing; planning; collecting data; recording data; organizing data; interpreting data; presenting research findings

BUS STOP

The Mission Statement