Transcribed from hand-written notes from 18-19 Feb 2015
Today my student really got to apply the last two days of
one-on-one instruction- combined with collaboration among all class members (4
total,) to plan how to overcome (solve) a problem – students primarily led the
day with experimentation – (minor failures)… but success in using taught skills
to adapt to learning environment and succeed at tasks (tests) as a team. It was really impressive just how far highly
motivated students can come when they have a VERY long leash with what they can
do and who they can work on issues with (active class collaboration and group
think…). In addition, students reflected
that they appreciated being able to steer a lot of the direction of their
training. Achievements that were reached
at the end of four days together (the students in class of six total had not
worked together prior to start of class) rivaled past students who had worked
as teams for several weeks.
Instructors worked as facilitators:
Sometimes applying expertise to aide in progression and
development, sometimes prodding the student to think deeper upon concepts, and
active use of existing individual skills (that is, specific students’
expertise) present among the team to seek expertise and experience to craft end
product.
Iterations of learning evolutions:
- Students went from individual inquiry and thought on concepts to develop group reasoning, logic, learning, and experimentation
- Through consensus (collaboratively) team developed approaches to problem solving and grew from failures to develop cohesive problem over-taking strategies to potentially employ for similar problems.
Sidebar:
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รจ Team researchers (class-mates) interacted with
all to identify items and information that they could research and contribute
concurrent with others working on task progression.
(additional note 04/12/2015): the
students were excited by having a problem and challenge to attack and swarmed
on it… almost feeding energy off of one another.
This was an unforeseen positive benefit –
manifested nearly-solely because of the resourcefulness and tenacious drive of
individual students (wanting to actively contribute, and thus aide in
problem-solving ventures, stumbling blocks, or issues). The excitement of others, seemed to awaken
the intellect and creativity of every student to perform (contribute richly).
All class members were respected
(to the fullest) by peers as active, knowledgeable contributors and no
perspective (how to think about tasks or direction) was dismissed
** Students are highly motivated,
eager, and knowledgeable… and respect other classmate’s skills as complimentary
to group endeavors.
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