Critical Annotated Webliography

Research Questions

How can we make school better for today's young learners?

Are there any alternatives to formal compulsory schooling for educating children?

Annotated Webliography

https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/newsroom/yr2006/oct/k4_strategy.pdf

“The early years of schooling are a critical period for the establishment and development of the skills, knowledge, behaviours, values and attitudes that provide the foundations for life long learning and sustained personal wellbeing. These early years build on the experiences children have had prior to beginning school. Young learners are aged from four and half years to ten years. They span the first five years of schooling from Kindergarten to Year 4 (K-4). Young children are eager to learn. We must continue to nurture the curiosity they bring to learning, focus on building confidence and ensuring success, and help instill in our young learners a strong love of learning.”

“Each public school is both unique and part of an extensively linked regional and state-wide school network. Schools form partnerships with other schools, external agencies and organisations to better support student learning. Schools also connect in virtual ways.”

“The increasing use of new technologies will provide students and teachers with greater flexibility in how and where learning occurs. It will also provide opportunities for improving communication with parents and in developing learning communities.”

This item recounts the requirement of an hour to recognise the advances that require taking account of the varied backgrounds and environments of our juvenile learners, the influence of expertise and the attached international environment. It desires to accept the implication of family and community in a child's learning and that every progeny is unique. This needs flexibility, creative difficulty explaining, professional information, value educating perform, comprehending and innovation.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/making-a-difficult-young-learner-group-better

“Why are some young learner classes successful and others a constant struggle? We have all seen teachers who can walk into the classroom and their pupils immediately pay attention and fall silent. However, I would say that this is not the case for the majority of young learner teachers who have to work hard to keep students interested and engaged in lessons. I would like to explore in this article some possible strategies which could be used when a teacher is faced with a challenging group of young learners.”

“Karen, a school teacher, worked hard over a period of about a month and the group changed from being a problem class into Karen's favorite group. One of the pupils who had displayed very challenging behavior at the beginning of the school year became something of a star pupil in terms of his behavior and progress. This particular pupil certainly liked Karen's approach a great deal.”

Obviously there are numerous variables engaged in working out how students answer when an educator is standing in front of a assembly of juvenile learners. The teacher's body dialect, pitch of voice and facial sign are all important. In my know-how, some schemes appear to work with some assemblies but not with others. However, I accept as factual that the key points in Karen's scheme can be directed effectively to a broad kind of YL assemblies ...