Description

Children recall and record what they have learned in a lesson or series of lessons based on the acronym STAR, meaning to Stop, Think And Record. My Learning Log is a new departure for how children and young people engage with and recall their learning. Ask a student the apparent simple question: What did you learn today? …. and listen to the silence, often combined with a blank stare and a shrug of the shoulders! However, when they are pressed on the question and given the time to stop, to think and to reflect, they will often recall the essential points of learning across many lessons and subjects. When children spend time thinking about their learning, then the learning becomes deeper and even more meaningful e.g. when a child thinks about an idea such as multiplication in mathematics, what it means, how you do it and most especially how it applies in the world around us, then he/she will come to know it so much better. Logs are completed in school at the end of the school day, BUT more often they are completed at home as part of homework, really challenging the child to think about his/her learning and to record it