I'm really enjoying the opportunities that swimming has brought us this term. Some of the learners are really coming out of their shells in the pool and it's fantastic seeing them in an informal learning environment where they have such a high chance of success and they're getting so much enjoyment out of it. I've been taking photos and videos with the intention of writing narratives for the learners in my group, I'm seeing such development from some learners so I'm excited to compare their skills at the start and at the end!
It's also a really useful way to experiment with allowing learners to pick and choose what they work on for part of the day (when learners come back form the pools they are allowed to work on whatever they'd like to work on). It would be my ultimate goal to have learners making these sorts of choices all of the time and Lisa and I running mixed workshops throughout the day so it's a great way to experiment and see how the learners cope with such a high level of choice. Some of them are really loving it, grabbing the opportunity with both hands and enjoying it while others are more off task. I would say at the moment that the majority of learners are off task with a handful making positive learning choices, I'm interested to see if this changes over the next four weeks!
* I wonder how I can support the learners to decide what they need to work on and stay focused, perhaps they need to spend shorter periods of time on each thing they do, to stop their attention falling off so often.
* If we ended up running this type of model how would we keep track of learners and their finished work/work in progress?
* The circle of independence would really help us with this, how would we use it better to support those learners who need to stick close to a learning coach?
* Would it be okay to allow learners to make their own choices all day??
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