"Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world." - Paulo Freire
Personal Growth
During this programme, along with the lectures, the opportunities of exploring out of the classrooms to visit different sites have added much significant value to my personal growth. While visiting some of the interesting places with mindful observation and participating in the activities, I also got an insight into how these real or unreal things can be integrated into lesson plans. In fact, we were able to do so; created a lesson and learning activities during one of our visits to the museum, which you can find below.
Game-based Learning
Engage, Play, Fun & Learn 🎲
What comes to your mind when you hear the word, 'game'? Most of us do think of fun. Definitely, games should be fun, and learning should be fun as well. Games can be one-on-one or they can be team-based. Likewise, using the same principle of the game, what I learned from this visit to De Aanstokerij is, how we can use 'game as an educational tool'.
This visit has inspired me on how to think and plan experiential teaching fun as well as challenging. I believe such game-based learning not only educates the mind in terms of concept and knowledge, but it also provides empathy and provide the importance of interdependence.
In this game, we had to cooperate with each other by balancing the rope and passing through a tyre, not letting the glass fall. From the activity, the importance of 'we' over 'me' was a very important lesson I learned.
In the meantime, thinking and modifying some rules, this game can fit into other subjects too.
Science & Technology
To the Space & beyond 🚀
I have always been fascinated by science. I do not know everything around us, but that is the same mystery which makes me curious and engages me to explore. Then comes the science that helps me to understand and be happy! That is one of the reasons, why I chose to be a science teacher.
Visiting Technopolis was about the science around us and beyond. This is a perfect place to understand science from our daily lives to beyond imagination. Not to forget the S.T.E.A.M concept, it is also a perfect place for getting a close-up understanding of how science can be integrated with other subjects. As a science teacher, I will bring my students here to explore, play and understand different principles of science.
More on De Aanstokerij: https://aanstokerij.be/en
(In)Human Rights
What is Right and What is Wrong? 🤔
Use this space to introduce yourself and share your professional history.
Among the excursions in the PGCert programme, the visit to Kazerne Dossin,
the holocaust museum will be a very memorable one. Not because of beautiful memories, but of the sad history of our humankind. In the meantime, I did feel ambivalent looking at the history and at the present. While as a teacher, I was very joyful thinking that many lessons can be planned but from the personal side, it was a painful and heavy-heart situation to go through the memories of the concentration camps and everything related to it.
On the brighter side, as a part of our school activities, together with my fellow colleagues, we were able to come up with a team-teaching project based on this trip. The topic was based on the Children's Rights and my group was responsible for Escape Room (remember the game-based learning).