bambooh Effective Teaching and Learning Protocol
Challenge and Thinking Critically
Does the activity promote:
- Development of own ideas, make links between different ideas and develop strategies for doing this?
- Are the activities appropriately challenging?
- What will the next step be?
- How will you encourage growth mindset?
Informative
Does the activity promote:
Novel learning and the ability to use what they learned during free play, in other words can they apply what they’ve learned – appropriately – in the real world?
Question your activity:
- Is your activity informative?
- What new thing will my bambooh children learn?
- What upcoming activities can I put in place to enable my bambooh children to apply what they’ve learned?
- What can I do to enhance and reinforce what we’ve learned through the rest of the day?
Basic Concepts and Theme
Does the activity promote:
Repetition of the basic concepts within the theme?
Question your activity:
Have you used all the Basic Concepts in your activity?
Active Learning
Does the activity promote:
The opportunity to concentrate, hold your bambooh children’s attention through stimulating and novel content, and allow for enjoyable achievements?
Question your activity:
- Is the activity fun, really fun?
- Is it age appropriate?
- Does it maximise all the resources available to you?
- What can I add to make it even better?
Playing and Exploring
Does the activity Promote:
A wide scope and freedom to experiment and explore through spontaneous play?
Question your activity:
- Does it promote a “have a go” attitude?
- Is your activity interactive?
- Is the activity interesting and new?
- What can I add to this activity to make it even better?
