Mondays 6:30-9:00 pm
North Seattle Community College, IB 1409
Candice Hoyt, Instructor
Course online: http://northseattle.angellearning.com/
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The Right Hand - ?
Values
Wetlands visit
Memories
Syllabus
Phase One
Printing
Grafton Water Project,
Phase One
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Problem-solving
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Great Communication
between the kids
Still young
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Know how to look for smaller
hand
Not instantly believing what
she saw happen
Helpful & caring for one
another
Relationship is good
foundation for future.
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What the “The Right Hand”
documentation conveys…
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About the children
About the school
About the culture
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http://reggiochildren.i
t
Reggio Emilia
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Subjectivity
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Not voting; all voices heard
“Emergence of what was not there before”
Sources: self, others, community
Reciprocity
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Space, time, language, methods
Indefinite, ample possibility
Learning
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Value being different
Let go of “right” way or idea
Democracy
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Participation
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Wholeness & integrity
Not broken or need to fix
Difference
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Sydney Clemens: Teaching: The Discipline
Sylvia Chose
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Teachers enter learning; not rivals
Aesthetic relationships with kids
Play
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Emotional, warm, fun
Interaction between learner and object to learn
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Teaching in a democratic classroom
Sharing the power with children
Caution – don’t give them more power than
they can handle
Our values
Emergent Learning
Democratic Classroom
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Pre- Phase One
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Free play
Teachers add new,
challenging, interesting
things to environment or
experience (walkabout)
Accepting/Rejecting a
project children want to
do
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“The Topic of Pirates”
listserv post by Lilian Katz
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Brainstorm interesting
things from wetlands
walk
Get into pairs/groups
to further investigate
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Assignments:
4/12
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Read:
Read:
pp. 1-26
pp. 27-50