Thursday, July 7, 2011

Bansho Year 1 and 2

 We are at Gosberton School (Park's partner school) for the first time. Today is our first day preparing for and supporting Bansho in a grade 1/2 classroom. The teachers prepared the question and braved the experience with 12 observers. The students responded well to the problem solving and came up with some good math thinking. Today showed us the importance of teaching children how to communicate and work with a partner.
Gosberton teachers begin their first Bansho lesson
Year 2 student working on a solution
We took over the consolidation of the lesson



After the lesson we were swooped away to the year 6 classroom where the students had baked scones and made tea for us. We had english cream and jam on the scones -- a very traditional tea time!