The best moment of teaching this group of students to innovate was seeing them come up with the ideas that we had originally thought of, without us even mentioning them. That was when we knew we must have been doing something right!
I really enjoyed this day, as it allowed us to change roles and become the teacher instead of the ones using our imagination and being innovative. It helped me to improve my teaching and group working skills and to see what teaching in a Danish classroom would be like. If I could improve one thing about the day it would have been to have more time to spend working on these projects and the children really enjoyed them.
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Today we completed this project of teaching innovation. Goretti, Jonas, Kim and myself were given a group of 10 9th graders to work with, and though they didn't seem too interested in our plan to redesign their hallways at first, they soon got into it and came up with some great ideas. They took on the character of the user they had been designated, and brainstormed well to come up with a wide range of solutions, before narrowing these down to a few useable ones. The students worked well as a team and althought we had given them only a few resources were able to make prototypes and share these with the class.
I felt that the feel, imagine, do, share model worked well, and our flexible teaching plan was useful as the timing was a little longer than we had initially thought.
I think if I was to do this lesson again, I would ensure that each member of the group had a designated part of the plan to take charge of, as today we were unsure who was doing what most of the time.
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