Monday February 27, 2012
GREETINGS all you
learners!
I am adding new content to my postings! Writing is so very
important! It is time to review the Learning Journey that has evolved
through my teaching of the last several years because the Learning Journey
provides the foundation principles for the reasons we need to write.
We are all on a learning journey, everyday of our lives.
As learners we are constantly bombarded with new information; not all of it can
be processed; we pay attention to what is most intriguing to us personally; to
the ‘great ideas’, to the things we want to know more about, to the things that
fill us with questions. As learners we go after the answers to our questions
and assume we are gathering accurate information as we WRITE (in our
idea-catcher notebooks) and take opportunity to ponder the information
we gather. We must think about what we WRITE on purpose; we must practice paying
attention to our feelings and thoughts and ideas, watch for answers to appear
that may satisfy our questions.
We must test our answers by “playing”
with them; we must use our whole body to talk, draw, write, craft,
design…..test, try, prove our ideas work. Our body informs our mind. Imagination
kicks in and connects new understanding to our ideas
and helps us create a product or service that makes our idea visible; (and
we WRITE/draw how we will make it visible) we show it off to others,
demonstrate it, articulate it, prove it works and see how the “world” responds.
We may make adjustments (re-writes) but
we don’t abandon our “great ideas”. Act on them, build on what your answers
demand, publish(->in writing) them
to the world, make a difference.
Teacher/parent note: When we
mentor learning for others we are on a special kind of journey. We are obliged
to seek out and offer the “great ideas” (truths) to our learners. We strive for
the best methods for introducing these truths and expend every effort
encouraging learners to ask their own questions. We are charged with providing
the very best resources possible for our students to explore as they gather
accurate information. We give honest feedback, and show the wide variety of
ways product can be made visible. We create service and growth opportunities
for our learner.
RE-VISIT THE WRITING IDEAS ON THIS BLOG AND “PLAY’ WITH WORDS
EVERYDAY!
Yours In Learning,
Further posts pending….!!
Mrs. J
