I promised to post the key quotes from my Task seminar last week in Morocco. I like to keep my promises...
Colourful Agadir!!
TASKS – Morocco, 5-9 March
Fes, Casablanca, Rabat, Agadir and Marrakech
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve
me and I’ll understand.
Chinese Proverb
Human beings feel best in flow, when they are fully involved
in meeting a challenge, solving a problem, discovering something new
Mihayli Csikszentmihalyi
Dropouts don’t leave school because we
don’t give them enough facts, but because they don’t find any meaning in them.
Gertrude Moskowitz, 1978
Projects
• encourage
students to work in groups
• extend
English language learning in engaging and creative ways
• develop
a wide range of skills such as research, interviewing, editing texts, using ICT
and visuals, design
Drama is doing.
Drama is being.
Drama is such a normal thing.
It is something we engage in daily.
Charlyn Wessels
Good Learners
are curious
have
courage
are good at
exploration & investigation
experiment
have
imagination
able to
think carefully, rigorously & methodically
collaborate
are
reflective
Guy Claxton
TASKS:
Arouse curiosity
Create a challenge
Encourage collaboration
and communication
Move towards a
satisfying conclusion
Celebrate learning!
The only
time my education was interrupted was while I was at school.
Winston Churchill
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