This current pandemic situation of COVID -19 has made all of us techno-savvy, especially the educators.
We all are taking virtual classes not only for homerooms but also for all single subjects. As we are moving towards agentic learning where teachers are in partnership with students, and hence providing opportunities where students can take ownership of their learning. To achieve the same, we give opportunities to the students where they can decide their own success criteria for each learning engagement.
Through the library class, we tried to do the same and to our surprise, the students came up with their own success criteria for the read-aloud session, they shared that after the read-aloud “We think, we should be able to understand and retell the story to our parents in our own words”. Another grade came up with the different success criteria which are- after the read-aloud, “We should be able to reflect what was the story and how were the characters in the story”.
As we all are lifelong learners, it is important to believe in self-development, self-efficacy, and self-renewal. The journey of teaching and learning becomes more beautiful when we involve our students in each and every learning engagement as partners.
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Asking a child of 1st grade to write about the success criteria is preposterous if not outrageous. Added to this learner profile is to be included in everyday work sheets. It appears the parents are entrusted with work as assesses. Most of the teachers in gaudium who teach 1st graders don’t know the grammar or the proper words to be used. Some of them continuously babble as if they are about to miss the flight. Does the management ever eve drop on such classes. If they do, they will realise how pathetic the quality of teaching is. Writing about learner profile and success criteria by the 1st grader will be more than the assignment.
Thank you for your feedback and we assure you that a curriculum is always in a state of development and improvement. Someone from our pedagogy team will reach out to you soon to explain the process of how we go about designing our curriculum keeping in mind the course requirements, child’s ability and also international standards.