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1. Identity

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Reflective Activities

Understanding Ourselves as Teachers

Knowing Children and Young People as Pupils

To explore one of the features of 'growing up': the mulitple and sometimes contradictory expectations that different people have of children and young people
To identify how children feel about themselves in a school context
To find out young people's criteria for a 'good primary school teacher'
To find out children's views on school
To begin to construct a biographical understanding of a pupil
To attempt to 'get into the shoes' of your pupils in order to try to understand aspects of their culture from the inside
To understand our perceptions of 'pupils'
To develop your knowledge and understanding of children's peer cultures
To consider the influence of relationships in home, playground and classroom on the sense of identity and learning of a child
To identify some needs of a selected number of children in one's class and to establish an order of priority
To review the learning of a pupil in the light of Susan Hart's Framework for Innovative Thinking
To encourage children to evaluate themselves and to review their work
To provide an opportunity for children to analyse the teaching they experience

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Figure 1.3 Social influences on learners through a school career

Figure 1.4 Mediating mechanisms for achievement of the wider benefits of learning