UOI - How we organise ourselves

How we organise ourselves

Provocation activity

The physical arrangement of a classroom is like a map that directs learning and can be arranged according to classroom goals and interests. The overall atmosphere of the classroom sets a stage for student interaction, management rituals, routines and a sense of community.

If not properly managed, the classroom can fall apart from being disorganized, unsafe and poorly constructed.  Well this is what happened in our classroom, when students were away for a specialist class, the whole class was dis-organised by us teachers (Provocation activity) having their school bags kept in different corners of the class and corridors. The stationary and notebooks were missing and students were completely taken aback as they started to feel frustrated because they were not able to do their class work.

This provocation activity enabled them to understand that organising oneself is not one person’s job and to get things work smoothly we need systems.

Their REFLECTIONS were ~

Dis-organised, Stressful, Tiring, Scattered, Life will be boring being consumed by useless thinking, Unnecessary work, Difficult, Hard, No study time, Uneasy, Always rushing, Exhausting, No fun, No rest, Lots of useless work, Wasting time, Empty handed, Doing wrong or useless work.