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In a Grade two classroom a teacher has incorporated a show and tell session each to provide the students with the opportunity to share their current interests and knowledge on topics of their choice, promoting student-centred learning and social interactions within the class (Biermeier, 2015; Blaise, 2011). Today is Eliza's show and tell, the teacher approaches Eliza's parents at morning drop off to see how Eliza and the family are settling into their new home. With consideration to Bronfenbrenner’s (1994) ecological systems model, the teacher understands that mesosystems are the connections between each setting that includes the child, school, and home and that these relationships have an influence upon a child’s learning. During her conversation with Eliza’s parents, the teacher is informed that over the weekend Eliza found a cat skeleton underneath her new house and she has proudly brought it to share with the class. Whilst being shocked at Eliza’s choice of show and tell, the teacher …show more content…

Eliza opens the lid of a large cardboard box and proudly announces it contains a whole cat skeleton that she found under the new house her family had recently moved into. Noticing that a majority of the class look interested in seeing the contents of the box, the teacher takes a moment to reassure students that if they feel uncomfortable, unsure or have a question at any time to raise their hand. The teacher then invites Eliza to continue, she takes out a couple of bones to show her peers and tell her classmates how she discovered them. A few of the students ask to look at the bones closely and the teacher agrees they can, if they wish to. As the bones go around the class it sparks further interest and the students begin to ask more in depth questions allowing the teacher to become the MKO, scaffolding the student’s knowledge by answering the children’s questions helping to develop a deeper understanding (Edwards,

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