1. Describe how the five processes of inquiry relate to young children’s learning and provide examples of how you can implement this into the classroom.
The five early childhood spatial concepts are position, direction, distance, organization and pattern, and construction. There are many ways these five concepts can be implemented into a child’s everyday life, especially in a classroom environment. Children do very well when they have structure, and for many students, they function much better when they have a schedule to follow. When you create a schedule for each day, you will include information such as what activity you will do doing and where this activity will be held. This is a good way to implement the spatial concept of position. Children will be able to answer where they will be.
There are unquestionably many actives that teachers can do in order to teach the concepts of direction and distance. Activities such as Simon Says or Follow The Leader are popular games that incorporate direction and distance into the activity. A game I was recently introduced to was called Train Ride, and I believe this is a great game that includes these two concepts. In this activity the children are required to hold hands in order to create a chain. The teacher then tells the children where to go, how fast to go, how far to go before turning, or to reverse the route.
It can be a little more difficult to find ways to involve the spatial concept about organization and pattern. My best
Analyse the theoretical perspectives taken to learning and development through play Humanistic theory- says that children should have the chance to choose what they want to play with and carry out their own ideas. Adults should be supportive towards the child which will improve their confidence and self esteem. Social learning theory- children learn though copying other children and adults.
The Early Years Learning Framework is broken into 3 main areas, the principles, the practices and the outcomes. Outcome 4 of the framework describes how Children are Confident and Involved Learners. Section 2 of outcome 4 askes educators to identify Children as developing a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating (DEEWR, 2009. p.35). Below are the 11 ways an educator can promote this type of learning:
Questioning strategies is the main focus of the article. Mr. Reinhart wanted to implement questioning strategies into his teaching style. He found that children did not feel comfortable sharing their ideas and engaging with peers. It is important that a teacher teaches a couple new skills before moving forward, allowing students to accept and adjust to the next expectations being established. “Improving questioning skills is difficult and takes time, practice, and planning” (Reinhart, 2000). Mr. Reinhart explains making a list of strategies and practice different techniques in daily
Describe how the physical environment in which you are teaching supports the active and multimodal nature of children’s learning. (If, in your view, the physical environment in which you are teaching does not adequately support the active and multimodal nature of children’s learning, please describe the changes you would
Describe how the physical environment in which you are teaching supports the active and multimodal nature of children’s learning. (If, in your view, the physical environment in which you are teaching does not adequately support the active and multimodal nature of children’s learning, please describe the changes you would make.)
Stereotypes In Society In today’s generation, Cosmopolitan has raised the sales of their magazine due to their monthly tips regarding fashion, sex advice, and beauty tips. The image I chose was one of the new issues of Cosmopolitan’s magazine and was located at a local Walmart on Innes Road. I was drawn to this image because unlike the other magazines around it, Cosmopolitan used bright colors and a photo-shopped image of a model to bring the attention of customers in which brings my question into play, how does this image reflect the changing values in society?
In Year 1 for Measurements and Geometry/ Location and Transport, students should be able to ‘Give and follow directions to familiar locations’ (ACARA, 2016). According to the curriculum, the students should also understand the importance of directional words and their meanings, such as forward, backward, under, right turn and also left turn. Additionally, students should understand the reason why people give and follow directions from one place to another. Following directions can also include turns, as well as distances. One example would be directing a person to the nearest school location. Without prior knowledge or a set of directions, there is
As shown from the story, Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most important theme that he develops is the consequences of guilt. For example, after Banquo was killed, Macbeth has a dinner party with the noblemen; after a few minutes of conservation, the ghost of Banquo enters the scene and sits in Macbeth’s chair, and when Macbeth sees him, he tells him, “thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me” (Shakespeare, 3. 4. 50-51). Macbeth’s insanity into seeing the ghost of Banquo, while others couldn’t demonstrates the consequences of guilt. Here, Shakespeare illustrates that Macbeth’s guilt from killing Banquo is overcoming him to imagine things that weren't really there. Also, when Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking in Act 5, she replies, “yet
Mrs. Thomas pulled an assignment Know as, “Due Now” for a student to pass out to the entire class. The first assignment given to the students required them to recall the past lesson learn. The Due Now assignment reinforce the past lesson to help the student retain and recall the lesson learned. Mrs. Thomas give the children thirty minutes to complete the assignment and those that had not will complete later. Next she introduced the “Reading time on the carpet. The book of the day was< “Sherman Crunchy”. The reading is to promote the student to engage in the listening, recall, comprehension, and incorporate new words. The student were asked question throughout the residing and required to respond
Location and transformation is a concept taught in the early years of school, children are taught simple concepts such as under, over or next to. Exploring location and movement of objects provides children a way to describe their environment and give directive to their surroundings. Location progresses with the introduction of directions and distances travelled such as moving forward or backward, this is further developed into directions such as north, east, south, and west which is explored through movement (DoEWA, 2013). Learning about location provides an opportunity for children to build mathematical concepts such as that of positive and negative numbers and skills connected to other subjects, such as map skills
Children acquire more understanding through personal experience, and as Vince Gowmon once said: “you cannot make people learn, you can only provide the right conditions for learning to happen.” (Basic skills assessment and educational services, 2018). The notion of an educator scaffolded environment for quality application over quantity of knowledge dispensed is an important aspect of the inquiry approach to learning. Inquiry learning ensures that students receive a quality education through carefully scaffolded lessons using investigation and exploration as students pose and answer questions to build and cement personal understandings. This essay will define inquiry learning, and how the implementation of this particular teaching approach
Visual-spatial issues: This may cause the children to have a issues with telling where the objects are located. This includes the distances of objects. Which can also cause the child to have a hard time reading maps, estimating distances and understanding time.
Which section of the lesson allowed students time to explore their ideas? Observe one group of students and describe what is happening during this time. (If possible, list a few student comments.)
There are many benefits to teaching kids how to make a map or plan, and apply it to a project that they want to work on. Over the past few years, many families have started planting their own gardens in their yard during the spring months. A garden map is a great way to plan out your spring garden, so that it looks just the way you want it to. There are some plants that can not be planted to close to each other. For example cucumbers can easily overtake anything they are planted next too. They can grab onto the plants next to them and also block out sunlight. That is why a map is certainly a good idea. For your lesson plan have each of your children, draw a picture of your yard. If the weather is nice outside, why not take them out in the yard and allow them to draw a sketch first hand. After your children have finished drawing, their picture of the garden, sit down with them and decide where you want the garden to go. If you have more than one child, why not give each of them a small patch of land. Each of your kids can pick where they want their patch of land to go. Have them indicate this on their garden map. They can even set up how and where they want to plant the seeds in the garden. A good way to incorporate math into this lesson is measure the distance between each plant. Look up what the right distance between each plant should be. Most of this information can easily be found online. If they write the measurements down on the map, when it is time to plant they can