My Educational Journey

“In my practice, if anything was possible I would love to shift towards a learner focused program. I imagine this could look like...”. It is term 4 at 8.30 in the morning and I enter into the senior classroom of Year 4 to 8 students. There are a group of students on devices being entertained with Mindcraft. I hear lots of dialogue about who is in what world, what should be built, and comments about one another's building projects. Some students are out of their seats helping younger classroom members. The bell rings to start the day and the students in the senior class automatically begin their days lessons that have been posted on Microsoft Teams. The morning starts off with the normal Maths and Literacy, however, all instruction is given within the Microsoft Teams. I work with the Year 4 students and those who are still low according to the National Progressions. These student are still learning strategies in both learning areas which will help them to work more indepen...

Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy View a short video to explain  What is Heutagogy?   There are very slight differences in the three 'gogy' practices. All of which are probably more designed around age and stage or knowledge and skill. Initially, when first starting school, as curious as humans are you don't know what you don't know. Strategies and knowledge are taught to you via the teacher designing the learning for you and therefore, a Pedagogical approach is used. As adults, you become more able to self direct your learning in an area of your interest or need. Therefore, the teacher becomes a guide or facilitator and only provides what an adult is unable to help themselves with - thus being the Andragogy model. At any age, dependant on your knowledge and skill set, heutagogy can be practiced as it is focused on learners being their own teachers. A problem is posed and students go off to solve it using all the skills, strategies, and knowledge that they can ...