Action Stations

Today I will be sharing with you …*What is action research and how can it affect your teaching? *Action Stations, the result of my journey through action research, empowering each child within a community of diverse learners.

Action StationsYou may find yourself ….- exposed to a program that could fit with your philosophy in teaching and learning- considering ways to apply teacher action research in your own classroom- developing an understanding of the process of being innovative in your classroom.

What is action research?

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Do you believe?

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The power of a question

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Collaborate and Network

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Action StationsCommon place for playing and learning as platform where they can discuss the learning process and thinking

Make own choices Taking responsibility for own learning

Investigating learning

Developing hauora, a sense of belonging and a curiosity for learning

Holistic approach catering for the mental, emotional, physical and social needs of the child through play and inquiry learning

What is Action Stations?

Meeting

emotional needs.

Refining fine

motor skills

Creating e-learners

Encouraging

persistence and

striving for success

Engaging co operative skills in real life, role

model situations

Applying language and cognitive skills

Managing gross motor skills A

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Planning Action Reflection Every day for

over an hour

How it works

Getting Started

How do I know which station to choose?

How long do I stay at a station?

How do I know I am learning something?

How can I learn from someone else?

A focus questions

* knowing what to do* your brain is working

* listening for new ideas to try* thinking means you are learning* you can see or hear learning in

your brain * think for yourself instead of just doing what your friend is doing

What is Thinking?

* finding out what to do* you are doing something

harder* your brain is popping up new

words like fireworks* when your brain is talking to

itself* it's when you scratch your

head.

What is Thinking?

Negotiate Self manage

Plan Make decisions

Make choices

Action Stations

share learning, achievements, success, problems, new ideas

inspire more learning, develop curiosity in a new station, motivate a want for success

developing language of learning and identify learning needs

Reflection

To make meaning from new learning, children need time to internalise information, create links and develop understanding. We cannot create that meaning for them as it is generated from within (Epstein, 2003).

The Value of Questioning

ScaffoldChallengeExtendgain information develop new ways of thinkingCelebrate

The Value of Questioning

We like to sing with our ukulele’s together. We are learning to use the ukulele properly and to tell

stories and sing songs with music. We are really proud of how well we can play the ukulele now.

I wanted to try something new so I tried to make a

sun. I was learning how to cut carefully to

make my sun look great. The tricky part was cutting the lines straight

to the middle.

Key competenciesThinking

Relating to others Participating and

contributingUsing language and

symbolsSelf management

Areas of Developmental GrowthCognitive

Gross motor skills Fine motor skills

CooperativeEmotionalLanguage

Multiple Intelligences

NaturalistInterpersonalIntrapersonalVisual /Spatial

Logical/Mathematical Musical rhythmical

KinestheticVerbal linguistic

Positive Minus Interesting Next Steps

Teacher Reflection

Why Action Stations Works

Children own the learning

Engages children Personalised

learning Purposeful

activities directed by learning needs

Community of learners who support to each other

This is the best thing about school my wee one tells me. Developing inquisitive minds and evidently a real stimulus

to learning judging by the "daddy can we google..."

conversations we have over dinner!

Parent Comments

“She is so confident now and is making and designing her own

things, experimenting and asking

questions all the time. She has become very creative

but also with the expectation that we can achieve success.”

“Action Stations is the only thing my child talks about at

home. They love it.”

Parent Comments

“I’m really proud of my learning at Action Stations.”

“I love building new things and sharing with my friends.”

“Action Stations are fun because I can practise writing so I can

get better on my own.”

Kids Comments

“There were some days I thought the children were just playing

around and not actually achieving any learning. It wasn’t until

reflection time that I realised they were learning so much in

persistence, perseverance, social skills, cooperation and developing their language so they could talk about what they were doing in a learning context. I love reflection

time the best!”

Teacher Comments

“The strategies that the kids are learning at Action Stations are

clearly being transferred into maths time. They support each other’s learning and

problem solve collaboratively. They have the language to talk

about what they are learning with detail.”

Teacher Comments

“Initially I was very sceptical and could only see more work, not

less. Our day was already busy – how were we going to do

something else as well? Once I got set up, my reading time is now

stress free. I am confident the kids are learning while I am busy with

small group teaching. I love setting up stations that the kids

get so excited about.”

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