Week 1- Reflect on how your understanding of the purpose of education is visible in your class.

I think this reflection is quite an interesting one... it can be broken down into two components; Firstly, what actually is the purpose of education, and secondly, what does that look like in my class?

I pondered this all day whilst teaching and still don't have a clear answer. However, as this is a reflection, then I suppose at the very least I am reflecting!!

To me, (and google!) the purpose of education is to facilitate and support learning. I believe I do those things, but am I doing that to best support and facilitate my students? I don't know. I have a focus this year in my class around building and developing student agency; I want children to own their learning and have them taking part in the decision making part of what needs to be learnt, and how we are going to get there.

 I think that perhaps this is the way that the purpose of education is beginning to be visible in my class? That I am not there to stand at the front, demand their attention, and spoon feed them information, but rather that we are on a learning journey together, and all of our interactions should be learning focused?

I suppose we shall see..