"The teacher works with learners to create environments that support individual and collaborative learning, encouraging positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation."
Students participated in a group gallery walk and critique. They provided feedback and observations to their peers and conversed about work in a constructive and productive way - learning about their peers processes and concepts.
At the end of the second lesson with these elementary students, they all hung up their leaves - or observational drawings - collectively on the tree.
At the end of the felting lessons, students participated in a gallery walk and spoke about their process and symbols that they chose for their personal flags.
Students created individualized succulent-rocks.
This is a video still from the last day of the summer program. This student, Princeton, was extremely interested in writing songs and began pretending that the AC unit was a screen as he could seen himself in the reflection. Not shown, is the collective class and teacher dance party that ensued during one of his fabulous displays of creative ability.
We crafted a collaborative final project for the students at Rowe Elementary. They learnt about various pollinators and their jobs in the Maine ecosystem, and then collectively placed them onto the posterboard together in order to make their class pollinator garden.