Research Aim
Presenting several long-term projects in cities in Israel, enabling school clusters (10 schools and more) to experience deeper learning and teaching in specific subject matter or generally in all the schools' teaching through the use of Attentive Teaching mode of instruction.
Theoretical framework
The need for Deeper Learning in American schools is emphasized in Mehta and Fine (2019). The pedagogy is the goal of the exceptional schools that they analyze, looking for the combination of: mastery, identity and creativity. Attentive Teaching (Schur & Guberman, 2023) cultivates the individual nature of the understanding that students experience in the classroom allowing the students to connect their knowledge, identity and creativity with observations and understanding of environments or texts or concepts in any subject matter and any age.
Methods
Implementation of Attentive Teaching in schools, starts with enabling leading teachers to get two years of training in Attentive Teaching, and then lead the school implementation of the teaching and learning method for two or three more years.
Findings
Three Long term projects of implementations of Attentive Teaching will be described:
1. in Arab East Jerusalem 15 primary schools
2. English Attentive Teaching in 12 high-schools in Arab East Jerusalem
3. Intervention in 10 primary and high-schools in Kiryat Shemona, the northern part of Israel
The leading teachers experience mediated interactions where they draw and explain their points of view of the learnt topic. Products from their experiences will be presented.
Relevance to the Conference theme and specific strand
As the conference deals with quality teaching and influencing equity in society, the presentation relates to an implementation of innovative teaching and learning in areas of low socio-economical populations, with the aim of influencing whole areas in long term projects.