Educational trends or initiatives come and go all the time. As educators we like to keep up these as we all know education is forever changing.
Today's post from the 30 Day Reflective Blogging Challenge is what educational trends captures your attention and why? I know for me it is anything where I can teach more meaningful for the students such as the work from Jeff Anderson or personalising learning with a strong link to LwDT.
However, I think the bigger question isn't about what educational trends that capture you, is how much of it do you get to try out and use authentically to make it your own before moving onto another trend?
For me and my experiences I have seen a lot of trends come and go quickly through our school. For the trends that have stuck with me, has been the PLP (personal learning plan) which the children have all their individual targets to work on and how Jeff Anderson delivers his lessons with a strong reading/writing link.
It is up to the schools to take a good look at these trends, see how it fits them, and give their staff enough time to experiement, get it wrong, play around further, discuss it, make it their own, keep the parts that fits, then move onto the next. The saying that springs to mind is: quality not quantity!
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