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.