Workshop with Karen Boyes
This workshop challenged us to stop and consider what our learners need in order to be successful in a rapidly changing world.
Who are your students becoming because of your teaching and learning?
We need to help our students to think about things differently in order to move forward.
Karen shared this clip as a lighthearted way of highlighting the importance of being able to problem solve.
Are we helping our students to become problems solvers. Are we encouraging perseverance, resilience, grit?
Children need to experience difficulties in order to grow and learn from these experiences. Remember that FAIL is just your first attempt at learning. It is through struggling to get out of the learning pit that children will develop thinking dispositions.
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| Image source - Karen Boyes |
In this workshop Karen unpacked five of these thinking dispositions; persisting, managing impulsivity, listening with understanding and empathy, taking responsible risk, and remaining open to learning.
One of the key messages that I took away was that these dispositions need to be explicitly taught. What do they look like, feel like, and sound like?
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