Original Learning's Alphabet

just playing with words... but room for reflection

A - autonomy - (where every child can be their authentic self together with others), authentic, active, adventurous, awareness,

B - brain, balance, being, becoming, brave, bloom, belonging

C - curiosity, care, complexity, collective, choice, change, creative, community, compassion, collaboration

D - democratic, dialogue, daring, dynamic

E - empower, empathy, equity, engaging, enchantment,

F - facilitation, fair, flow, flexibility, fulfillment

G - gratitude, genuine, generous

H - holistic, hopeful, healthy

I - Imagination, Interaction, inclusion, Indigenous, interconnectedness, intrinsic, intuitive, inspiration, inquisitive

J - joy, justice

K - knowledge, kind

L - listening, Love, learning, loose parts, look closely, listen deeply,

M - meaningful, messing-about, mwe (me and we), mindful, motivating

N - nature, noticing, nurturing

O -observation, optimistic, open, opportunities

P - play, play-responsive, playwork, phronesis, play-ecosystem, positive, proactive, possibilities, permission

Q - questions (rather than seeking just answers - we seek great questions)

R - reflection, risk, reciprocity, relationships, respect, rhyzomatic, responsible, response-able

S - self-regulation, sensory, social justice, storytelling, sensitive, sustainable, slow down, self-esteem,

T - time, teaching, third-teacher, togetherness, trust, tradition, thoughtful

U - understanding, unhurried, upstanding, unbiased

V - visibly invisible, valued (equally), vulnerable, versatile

W - wonder, well-being, welcoming

X - xenial (means warm and welcoming)

Y - yes (this is something I want to try)

Z - zingy

Maybe I will spend some coming posts exploring some of these words… and maybe adding more to the list over time.

Original Learning Alphabet by AI (AI struggles with letters when it comes to art)

do you have any words that you associate with the Original Learning Approach?