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Instructions:
1. Go to Break-out rooms

2. Read from The 1946 London Lectures.
Chapter 32 “The New Teacher” Pag 228 & 230 (Marked with a highlighter)

3. After reading these pages, discuss why is it important to have a plan for the collective stage?

4. One person in the group will capture the reflections on the Padlet, by creating a post.

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Children are all different and learning at different paces. They can learn together in a group setting, but this requires a plan from their teacher/guide. The plan allows the guide to set an environment which facilitates independent learning at different paces, with enough to engage or stimulate all the children to want to learn. However, the plan also needs ideas on how to redirect when necessary. The plan helps the teacher to identify when children are in deep concentration or flow, to not interrupt that child, but maybe to quietly redirect another. Without a plan, chaos would reign.

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We have a responsibility to provide children with a bank of appropriate activities that they can use to build their skills - academic, social, emotional, and executive functioning. We must not interfere in a child's building of concentration, but instead present and re-present activities that interest and engage the child at the appropriate level so that they can make choices for themselves that are supportive of their construction of self.

When we create a proactive plan for the child, to help build this bank of activities for them, we provide an environment in which the child can normalize and be successful in building concentration in appropriate ways. When we have a plan for the child, we can immediately redirect a wayward child into something that will instead build their skills at their level. When we observe the child, we know what will interest and engage them in this manner.

(Jen)

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planning helps the guide to offer attractive activities for the group yet focus on the individual childinterest.
Helps them to concentrate on tasks without having any distaractions by offering new material during the activity.
It it helps the day to flow smoothly for both guide and children.