I have recently inherited a year 10 class for one period a week and although it is hard to gather momentum when you are teaching something, I've made it my goal to make sure that they are challenged and excited about learning in Social Studies.
For our lesson, the kids had been working in human rights groups, on a Universal Declaration of Human Right. They had to present their work on a google presentation as a class with their other teacher, but didn't do this so I was eager to see how much work they'd put in.
When asking for volunteers, I got a varied response. There were the super confident students like Leo, who jumped at the chance to present and then there were the shy, withdrawn students who refused to get up. I didn't want to pressure or force every student to present and from what I could gage, the culture wasn't quite right or comfortable enough for each group to present. In the end, 5 of the 7 groups in some form or other presented and I let the class know, that my goal was to support them in their confidence to get up and share their learnings with each other.
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| Leo is super confident to present |
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| Jolise offered to share her learnings |
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| Fana and Tevita started well but became shy |
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