Context
It looks like each time somebody says the phrases “Experiential Studying” at our board workplace, they flip their heads and lock eyes with me. It may be a bit little bit of impostor syndrome kicking in, nevertheless it additionally may be that these phrases are very open to interpretation.
To be able to make clear what we will likely be calling Experiential Studying Within the context of our board, our TCDSB EL Committee gathered final week to tighten up our working definition of those phrases within the context of our faculty board. First, I cowdsourced some concepts from the crew utilizing this very quick Google Kind:
I took the entire crew’s concepts and pasted their phrases into this phrase cloud generator to disclose frequent themes rising of their concepts.
We then in contrast these concepts to the Ontario Ministry of Schooling’s Traits Of Efficient Experiential Studying:
Each anchors led us to a vibrant dialog that ended up with the next traits for the type of EL we’d wish to see in our board:
1) Experiential Studying should each characterize and, in a roundabout way, develop a neighborhood.
2) All components of the Experiential Studying Cycle have to be current. College students should take part of their studying expertise. They have to mirror upon their studying expertise. They have to apply studying from that have to a different a part of their lives. Neighborhood companions should even be concerned in all components of the Experiential Studying cycle.
3) A plan with particular outcomes in thoughts have to be on the core of the work. The plan have to be related to related curriculum and sound pedagogy.
4) Experiential Studying alternatives have to be inclusive and equitable.
With time, these will possible evolve. Moreover, whereas this doesn’t embody all types of Experiential Studying, it does give us a lens with which to view the work that we’ll be doing over the following few years.