How Do Our Memories Affect Our Vision For Our Learning Environment?

Setting out a vision for our learning environment is an important part of a new year at school. All of us in Room 14 come with different experiences from other classrooms and schools, which we can use to inform us to make decisions now and in the future. 

This morning we've engaged in a lot of discussion about positive and negative experiences, looking for cause and effect relationships. All of our ideas were very helpful in assisting us to collaborate in groups when identifying what we believe a high performing classroom would look and sound like. 

Another interesting question we've been considering is 'What should the role of the teacher be?' - An important idea for children to understand that links to where the ownership of learning lives. 

We also spent a significant part of the morning reflecting and talking about how we carried out this task. Did we participate and contribute as a valuable member of our groups? What does a high performing group even do? 

Next week we will be using the thoughts generated today to inform us in the design of our essential agreement for 2015 - Something which will clearly be developed from a wide range of experiences and viewpoints, as we found out today.