Reflection on previous year:

• Students did not actively participate in the discussion.
  
  

Highlights of design:

• Hidy formulated questions for students based on common misconceptions of the topic.
• Hidy gave students a paradoxical question to elicit relevant concepts.
• Hidy selected good notes for sharing and discussion in class to deepen their discussion.
• Students were asked to keep a learning diary to reflect on what has been learned.
  
  

Learning outcomes:

• Octopus-like figure in social network diagram shows that students were only building on the teacher’s note (in the centre)
  

Being frustrated with the limited discussion in class and on KF observed in the first year, Hidy tried to learn from experienced knowledge building teachers in KBTN and refine her pedagogical design. She attempted to make the discussion more engaging. In the second year, she worked with another group of Secondary 1 students on the topic “Energy”.