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The Student-Led Classroom Blog - Join me as I explore the creation of self-autonomous, primary school learning environments
Daniel R Wilson
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
The Student-led Parents' Evening
It's been a while since I last blogged in relation to student-led learning. Along with Covid, came a hundred-and-one barriers that have...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Nov 13, 2021
- 2 min
The most productive way to start your day!
Back in 2019, I had a brainwave. I had been developing my own morning resources, for the previous five years, and wanted to share them...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Nov 28, 2020
- 2 min
Morning Challenge goes Full-Screen!
Hi everyone - thanks for your continued support and usage of the site. I'm really happy that I've been able to help save you some time...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Oct 27, 2020
- 2 min
Non-contact Peer Editing
Sharing resources has been outlawed and the peer-editing of work had become a thing of the past. That was until I had a little brain wave...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
SOLE Lessons Go Live!
An exciting update more than a blog post. I previously blogged about the amazing research and work, undertaken by Sugata Mitra, in regard...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Mar 26, 2020
- 5 min
The Student-Led Home School!
I thought it was time to post in relation to the current situation that many of us find ourselves in. With the Coronavirus circulating,...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 5 min
To carousel or Not to carousel, that is the question...
I’ve read a lot of comments in support of whole-class guided reading in the past few months, but with my student-led hat on, I thought I...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 3 min
The Secret Student
Another ramble through the backstreets of Twitter, last week, led me to a post by @Mr_S_Primary (Sam Stewart). He briefly discussed one...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 6 min
Silent Teacher Day
The idea of 'Silent Teacher Day' was one which I stumbled over and have run with ever since. Everything about it hit the right notes with...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 3 min
I'm a SOLE man...
The concept of SOLE, or 'Self Organised Learning Environments' were the brain-child of Sugata Mitra. "In 1999, Sugata Mitra’s pioneering...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 3 min
The BIG Class Improvement Audit
It was late on Wednesday night, that I did my regular trawl of Twitter; in search of innovative and enthralling ways in which I could...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 3 min
The Role of the Peer Mentor
Previously, I discussed the importance of children being aware of, and comfortable with, their own abilities. The realisation of...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 2 min
Much More Than Milk Monitors
"It's like making the div kid at school milk monitor, no one respects it!" - A favourite quote of mine from the UK version of the office,...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 3 min
The Morning Challenge
Many of us manage a partially student-led classroom without, perhaps, even having considered it. I've seen the concept of the morning...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 3 min
Dynamic Seating!
Wouldn't it be brilliant if, as teachers, we didn't have to worry about seating arrangements; the constant challenges of pairing students...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 2 min
Learning By Example
How better to introduce a group to the concept of learning from the front, than by allowing two of my most confident and able student...
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Daniel R Wilson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 7 min
The Wake Up Call
An introduction to the concept of the student led classroom, and the factors which influenced me to put ideas into action. In the...
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