What makes a good monday morning?
Well this was the theme of our monday morning assembly at school, worth being pondered about.
Today my monday morning started by sharing good thoughts as usual on my twitter and facebook profiles, some of which are my own and some shared so generously by the the whole community of my social networkers.
One of the tweets which struck my mind went as follows:
Use factual questions to guide students to a conceptual generalisation. Don't tell them generalisation instead draw it from them. #IBDunia13
Well it was a tweet from the Indonesian IB teachers group. I never knew that this thought would be later justified so quickly and so well in our school assembly today. The big questions thrown to us in the monday morning assemble by our Head Teacher were in the form of few facts. They went as follows....
- Total of about 50 percent of the world population lies in the urban region and by 2030 ,UN projects that it would be raised to 70 percent.What does that mean to Kolkata?
- In the late 20th century , Shanghai , which today projects an image of "modernisation " as quoted by one of our students, was very much similar to what Kolkata is today.
What did these facts mean to us? Was there a corelation? Did it have a purpose?
These facts stated , actually had a far bigger meaning to the audience as our Head Teacher had started a competition for the students, 90 percent of whom were not born or brought up in Kolkata, to contribute to Kolkata and make it a better place to live. It resonated with the theme "Think globally and act locally".
How well we could use this in our classroom practices...Connecting back to the tweet ..developing conceptual generalisation from factual questions. To what extent do we articulate this approach to generate an inquiry based learninhg?
My learning in the journey of being an IB teacher is just endless where the horizon gets pushed away by each passing day.
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