Formulating an Hypothesis (Hunch)

A whirlwind of thoughts and wonderings:

• If I gain my students' interest areas first, then I can plan my term topics to get them engaged.
• If I integrate curriculum areas that are more connected with my students’ interests than they are more likely to engage in learning.
• If I introduce elements of music, dance, drama and movement into my literacy lessons, I will be able to entice my learners attention.
• If I merge Literacy with different components from the Arts and Science curriculum areas it will make the activities more enticing for my students.
• I will need to find and explicitly inject activities that will capture and hold their attention to support their ability to stay focused.
  
• Potentially it’s around needing to plan more cleverly. Get to now what inspires them and link/connect what I have to teach them within those curriculum areas.

Design for learning from the students interest areas

Understanding the learners interests before planning their needs. Currently, I have lots of student challenges around engaging and learning.

Focusing on the process not the product

Students learn by doing, being engaged, making mistakes, thinking, problem solving and having the space and support to take risks. Therefore, during learning activities staff support students to focus on what they are doing in the moment, not what the end result looks like.

Creating irresistable invitations to learn

Students only learn when they are engaged. In order to engage our students, we need to gain and hold their attention. We do this by making ourselves irresistible, presenting activities that are just too amazing to ignore. Once we have student’s attention we can add in the learning.

The hunch to pursue: “If I integrate different components from The Arts and Science curriculum areas to supplement teaching keywords and concepts for Literacy content, it will make the activities much more enticing for my students, who will then be more interested to engage.”