I was in the midst of filling out a feedback form for the UOI (Unit of Enquiry - a slab based teaching mode in the IB curriculum) for my little one in Grade 1 and I was suddenly stuck at one question. "write the title of the UOI for which the feedback is given" . Now I kinda knew what the UOI was, but wasnt sure about the exact title. I casually asked my daughter if she knew what her UOI was . She said "Unit Of Enquiry" . As expected. But I then prodded her saying if she knew what the title / subject of her UOI was . Not expecting her to reply, I was about to fill in, when she said "Increasing awareness of our personal ability and those of others allows our self identity to develop" !! So she said, in one breath, and she stumped me ! For life ! Allow the ramifications to seep in later. Just the entire sentence (and one that wasnt even part of the so-called prescribed syllabus) that she had picked up from the chart pasted on their black board the last 20 days, and probably read out a couple of times by the teacher, hit me hard. She had sponged it away to her brain, and recalled verbatim at the most veritable moment...
As L&D specialists, we often look at modes of increasing training effectiveness in androgogy. It will never cease me to amaze how a normal (ok, humbly specialist) teacher can deliver such a powerful learning in a classroom !
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