Observation Week 5

Focus-
What is the teacher doing to scaffold the learning intention with his/her writing group

The tch is with her group and chn are focused on their learning intention. Chn are asked to rearrange a simple sentence to include question marks. I like how there is a lot of discussion around their task. The chn were more successful when they verbalised their sentence, rather than writing down straight away. 

Tch effectively roams around the class room providing feedback and feedfoward so the chn can improve there writing skills.

Im very impressed by the scaffolding thats going on between tch and chn. The chn are more engaged and are keen to make their writing more interesting, including things that they need to focus on from their iCan sheet. This will be my next step to try in my classroom   

 

PRT Discussion Week 2

For this discussion I wanted focus on writing and wall displays. My goals were to decrease the time that it takes to mark a writing book and to get more displays up on my walls.

Suggestions Writing-

*have the iCan sheet next to me while I mark as apposed to flicking back and forth between the page I‘m on and the cover.

*only focus on the things they need, not the things they can do every time.

*give myself a time limit of 5 minutes for each book. If I haven't finished by the end of time then move on and mark the next book. Revisit the book to complete marking when I am mentally able.

Wall displays-

*use a 3D effect when putting them up, it saves space.

*take old stuff down and put new stuff up.

*set myself a focus on which wall I want to update/upgrade.

Since then-

I have set myself a time limit. Even though I don't stick to it all the time, it makes things a lot easier. I have found I am able to stay focused instead of procrastinating to the point of not being able to mark any more. I have been able to memorize parts of the iCan sheets and mark everything I can remember instead of going through each individual criteria. I halved the time it takes to mark which is the best part! 

I have a couple of new displays up. One topic and two discovery displays which are annotated. Last week I set my self a task of putting up a new display and managed to get two up.