20% time aka Genius Hour

Student led inquiry learning time is around building up our students to be

Life Long Learners

With moving from NE/Y1 to Y3/4 I've been looking into ways in which I can motivate, inspire and encourage my students to be life long learners, and learn how to peruse their passions. 

That's where 'Genius hour' comes in.

I've signed up for a 4 part free series by A. J. Juliani to learn a little more about Genius Hour and how it might look in my classroom.

Here is a link to part one.

Part one is about WHY we need to give students a choice.

Below the video there are lots of resource links to read more - i've gone through a few of them and they all seem to align quite wonderfully to what we want our learners to be.

Click on the video link above to get to these links.

As with anything, the biggest inhibitor of this will be time.

I think i'll pop into my classroom today to see how the building project is going... or if it has started! With having more of an open plan learning environment we're going to have to work our timetables together... which I hope leaves time for Genius hour!

Here is a blog which has some awesome writing about Genius hour and implementing it.... The author also has made a great interactive notebook packet on TPT... which might be the first thing I buy off Teachers Pay Teachers!