NEW VIEWS OF LEARNING
Language:
Taught through social conversation. Young child’s speech is elaborated upon.
Content:
Focus is on how to learn—how to ask questions and act in variety of settings.
Personalized Learning:
Children add to lessons with their own stories related to the topics in hand.
Ability:
Individual differences are attributed to children’s prior experiences.
Errors in Performance:
Errors are seen as learning opportunities.
Errors reflect child’s perception, which teachers try to understand.
Learning task is messy, requiring child to “figure” out how to achieve good performance.
Participation:
There are multiple opportunities for children to participate in group discussions, practice and application of newly taught whole class lessons, paired activities, games and social activities.
Collaboration:
Children help each other, each one contributing to a common goal.
Assessment:
Children have many ways to show what they know—drawing, acting, writing, building, and so on.
Parent /Teacher Conference:
Teacher listens to parents’ concerns. Teacher acts on home-centered information as way to support both parent and child. Child participates in the conference.