Victoria Biggs
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2019
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And there are practical ways to do it, for example, like building um a less a lesson into the the weekly schedule.
in which students get a chance to present on something that interests them.
And we do a lot of presentations at MySco.
Um, can be written, can be oral, can involve getting someone else to read out what you've prepared, any way of sharing that's comfortable.
And it's all about the learning and the knowledge and not necessarily about what it looks like or or how perfect it is.
Um other things I would think of is really try hard to diffuse any competitiveness in the classroom.
Um, like comparing grades, that kind of thing.
when I went to university for the first year even
um my professors didn't give me numerical feedback on my essays and it drove me absolutely mad just to get qualitative written feedback.
Oh you could do this better, this is quite good, but not to be able to match it to a grade.
Um obviously it's not practical for mainstream teachers to do that, but if they can try to shift the emphasis onto that qualitative feedback as opposed to on the number, I think it really helps.
Especially kids with any kind of special need.
And the final thing I would say is just accept that some children well, all children have things that they can't do.
I think some teachers find it inspiring to foster this kind of um there's no such word as can't mentality in their classes.
And I remember really being really angry once 'cause I read one of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and there's this supposedly inspiring story about a teacher who gets students to write down all the things they can't do.
Then she has a funeral for the I can't, makes a tombstone for I can't and hangs the I can't tombstone on the classroom wall.
And then whenever a child says, I can't do this, she points to the tombstone and says, I can't is dead.
That's the polar opposite of encouraging and inspiring.
And I'd say to any teacher who thinks this is a good idea, I expect you to be dancing with the Royal Ballet Company in two weeks and I don't expect to hear no or I can't because there's no such word as I can't.
But like that it seems ludicrous.
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