Learning Never Stops

These past few weeks, I have been very busy working of a website I am supposed to create  for my Master's course. We have been looking at different theories of learning. We are also looking into how brain-based research can help educators improve their teaching practice. The link to my website :   http://theoryoflearning.weebly.com/ I had fun analysing my classroom practices and seeing where I was subconsciously using recommended strategies which are conducive to building long-term memory.

The students of year 4 are learning about natural disasters. It is a great unit as it allows students to build a thorough understanding of cause and effect relationships among other things. They learn how people cope with and organize themselves during a disaster. Even though we live in a relatively safe part of India, it would be naive to presume nothing could ever happen to us. Most disaster happen quite suddenly (apart from drought). The students have been learning how to keep themselves safe. An expert member of the rescue team in New Zealand , and a member of the FOCUS team (an organization that has a lot of experience managing disasters throughout the world) have been our alternate source of information. We also skyped with a school in Australia to find out how they cope with disaster. For their summative task, the students are finding , sorting, and creating a wiki for their unit of inquiry. They will be assessed on their ability to find information from at...