Long description

An image of a variety of sticky notes that describe a series of classroom changes. They read as follows:

  • Teachers have the confidence to go beyond the textbook
  • Classroom should be interactive, e.g. students talking about their work
  • Teacher has higher expectations of themselves
  • Equality of treatment of boys and girls and different social classes
  • Teachers have higher expectations of all students
  • Classroom should be free from fear
  • Teacher feeds back to students from evaluation/assessment
  • Children need to do more practical activities in classrooms
  • Average and below-average children should be given more opportunities to learn
  • Teachers listening more to children
  • Teacher should be a good listener
  • Teachers to become facilitators, helping children construct knowledge
  • Peer group learning should be promoted
  • Children should be active participants, not passive
  • More questions from the students rather than the teachers
  • Learning that provokes thinking and reasoning
  • More practice in class
  • Connect classroom teaching to the real world
  • Teachers have skills to meet the children’s needs and help their change
  • Teacher needs to be in the background for children’s active learning
  • Grouping of students to enable discussion
  • Changing teachers’ mindsets away from traditional practices
  • Child can open up and share their knowledge.