Which ingredients of the C-Wheel are most relevant to you?

Carol Read developed eight important ingredients to create good conditions for learning. The ingredients are: coherence, challenge, curiosity, connections, care, community, creativity and context. In this essay I want to give my opinion about how the most important ingredients are and which ones I would use in my class when I become a teacher.

In my opinion the creativity is one of the most important ingredients. Many times creativity is an aspect that many teachers thinks that it is not very important, but I think that it is necessary to include activities which develop creativity, fantasy and imagination because at this moment there are a lot of challenges in our society, and children have to be prepared to respond to all the problems of society, and in a global context, our society is in a constant evolution and changing. So Creativity is not an option, it's an absolute necessity.

Other important think in the school is to build a connection with the other subjects. For example, when I was in a school practising to be a teacher I connected maths with science or history, and I felt that in this way children learned more. I also think that it is very important to relate their daily lives and their environment with the subjects working in class. For example in class you can make a market for children to learn to use money, because in their daily lives it is important that they learn to use the money, and in this way they practice with numbers in a “real” case.

Thirdly it is important that students learn from previous knowledge to make learning full and significative (or acquires a significative learning). This means that during the process of teaching and learning student must have prior knowledge which can be linked to the new, so it is necessary that the child already has some ideas on this subject, proposals and concepts.

If the student has some previous ideas the teacher must connect this ideas with the new learning.