Children are such curious creatures. They explore, question, and wonder, and by doing so, learn. From the moment of birth, likely even before, humans are drawn to new things. When we are curious about something new, we want to explore it. And while exploring we discover.
At the first class, I learned information mentioned above. Some children want to explore with only their minds, others in more physical ways such as touching, smelling, tasting... Some children can be more timid; others can be more comfortable with novelty and physical exploration. As a teacher, we should be aware of individual differences of children.
Moreover, time for exploration, environment and materials for discovering and cognitive, physical and language abilities of children are issues that were talked in the class in this week.
We also highlighted that parents have also big role to improve curiosity by allowing their child to explore, by allowing her to explore at her own pace, and even by reinforcing that she has learned something from her exploration.
In the laboratory lecture, we tried to understand the process of investigation by practice. As a group, we make some experiments. Firstly, we find a question, secondly we determined a hypothesis about this question and thirdly we determined a method to prove our hypothesis whether it is true or not. Lastly, we did experiments.
In conclusion,I think, all children are unique and each of them have different lives, dreams, and stories. They learn everything with exploration so we should allow them to continue to explore and offer their even more and new opportunities. We also let them struggle to figure out how to do something and let them experiment with how things work:)
