Re-Consider, Re-Construct, Re-Novate - Practices of Learning @ Schools

Should I call it "teaching"?

This is what a more than a decade of being in this field has done to me. I wonder if I'm growing wiser or increasingly confused with the use of vocabulary. After all these years of being surrounded by young learners of ages across 3 to adults and my colleagues I feel compelled to deeply analyze the word "Teaching" - a verb grammatically; I have been questioning myself if does this word actually mean something. Conventionally, the dictionary says - "it is the act or profession of a person who teaches". And here is the cause of my confusion. Can anyone teach the other? Is it ever possible? Isn't it always on the learner to decide whether to learn or not and thus, accept the act of teaching or not. No wonder, the teaching community seems to have increasing challenges and struggles to deliver, no matter their expertise. Because until the learner makes a choice and an independent decision, all that we teachers do is like music to deaf ears and creation before blind eyes.

Well, there are certainly some awoke personnel tirelessly trying their best to revamp the systems of education and I can say I've been fortunate enough to have stumbled upon some of the really great pedagogues, their pedagogy and methods to refurbish educational systems to the needs and demands of the current century.

This is a page dedicated to one such relevant practice as an outcome of all my learning in sprucing up my knowledge, awareness and majorly practices as an influencer to uncountable souls coming in contact with me through my profession.

Here are glimpses from my most celebrated practices. The children in the images are across grades 1 to 4 (6 years to 10 years), working on a year end Installation at school as a part of their Making Learning Visible on the topics ranging from Animals and Birds to Adaptations and Ecosystems. When children from across grades collaborate to share and build up on their understanding of a certain variety of topics what consequences is nothing par to ordinary. Each age group brings in their part of learning and contributes in the process of designing something far grander then their individual learnings. A true phenomenon of synergy.

Marvel the glimpses....