{"id":1407,"date":"2019-12-12T08:21:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T09:04:28","slug":"journal-writing-copy-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Assisting Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:right\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em><strong>contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Mr Keith Giacomotto,&nbsp;Class 6.2<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112145-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112145-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112145-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112145-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112145-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">During Science lessons, our boys are given the opportunity to carry out their own investigations and to come up with their own ideas and conclusions. When presenting the topic of \u2018Matter\u2019 we asked two questions.&nbsp; The first one was, <em>\u201cIs air matter?\u201d <\/em>&nbsp;We provided the boys with a box and a balloon and they had to use the given resources to answer the question. Subsequently, the boys where asked the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> question: <em>\u201cDoes air have weight?\u201d<\/em> Again, the boys used the given materials to carry out a simple investigation in order to answer the second question. These exciting and lively sessions should help us realise that our roles as educators should be to assist the students in reaching their own conclusions, which will ultimately lead to meaningful learning.&nbsp; As Mark Van Doren accurately puts it, <em>\u201cThe art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112234_censored-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112234_censored-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112234_censored-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112234_censored-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112234_censored-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191206_112234_censored.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Mr Keith Giacomotto,&nbsp;Class 6.2 During Science lessons, our boys are given the opportunity to carry out their own investigations and to come up with their own ideas and conclusions. When presenting the topic of \u2018Matter\u2019 we asked two questions.&nbsp; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1407\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}