Hi everybody, today I would like to share a small reflection about our workshops projects with you.
As those weeks we had been working in our workshops related with Aladdin I was thinking about a possibility of doing something similar in a real school, I consider the workshops we are doing are a great motivational tool for children and can be really useful to make them read in most of the cases, so why don’t use this tool at schools as a way to motivate our pupils to take a book.
Maybe there would be a possibility of doing one workshop per two weeks, those would be about different books, of course all of them appropriate for children. During those two weeks the students would have the possibility to read the books and then to assist to the workshop which will be closely related with what they read and the teachers would have time to thing and concrete the way of the development of the whole project.
Apart of being a way to promote reading there are more positive aspects, as for example the idea of including HOTS in the workshops, the activities that we can introduce can be closely related with analyzing and creating, also we will have the possibility of introducing multiple intelligences with different types of activities and probably one of the most interesting aspects, we can relate the workshops with the different subjects, in a way the different teachers will include activities which are going to be related with their subjects and in which they are the experts. So the art teacher will make posters, painting activities, etc. The P.E teacher will work with the kinesthetic intelligence, the English teacher would do the activities in English and so on.
I’m conscious about the fact that this is only an idea and there are going to appear lots of problems to solve during the implementation of this project, but I think it would be an incredible experience to see the whole school with all teachers involved in a project that relates literature with lots of subjects.
I would like to know your opinion about this idea, and don’t worry, it hasn’t to be positive, I know there are many things to improve, share your thoughts with me!
Hi Krzysztof!
You can be relaxed about my opinion of your post because I like a lot your idea of applying our workshops in a school and let the children participate actively in it.
I like the way of involve all the teachers to reach one objective related to literature, because it can be one part of curriculum that we forget when we work on it.
The only think I can tell you about this idea is about the time. In my opinion, one workshop every two weeks can be an stressful work for the children because when you finish one, you have to think about the next one and they have to do other things at school, not only one project, but a good idea could be make this workshops every month, so you can teach your contents or the book normally during 2 or 3 weeks and the last one be focused on the workshop.
Also, it can be related not only with a book, you can take some characteristics of it and apply it. For example, with Aladdin, you can take the topic of the desert to create a workshop about different landscapes or about the weather.
In conclusion, I like a lot your idea and it can be a good project to apply in a real school and see how children create them.