I appreciated learning about designing a reading programme. Especially seeing examples of other timetables for both teacher and students.
Time has been an obvious issue in my teaching practice where I have struggled to keep to the scheduled timeframes for each curriculum area, other teaching curricular (planning, marking, assessment, IEPs, prepping and my own learning), and other outside responsibilities. The information for timetables, independent learning, and tracking the progress of the learners work today really resignated with me today.
The different examples of timetables and must dos/can dos tasks empowers the learners.
I also appreciated the ideas for tracking the learning of the students, where the learner is also able to track their own progress and inform (through spreadsheet, etc) the teacher when they have completed each task. It empowers self management for thy student and creates more time for teacher to work in depth with small groups, and/or individual student.
Reading programme can integrate into other currucular. Planning also involves links to other curricular, and this session extended on ways to further improve this for my practice.
I have also enjoyed the different activities that encouraged our own awareness of each area that was covered today. This has helped me to retain a lot of the information.
Thank you for the information on 'INFERENCE'
Kia ora Lucy,
ReplyDeleteGreat to read about your reflections and what you will work on. Time management is so crucial to be able to focus on the important things. Speaking to myself here!
I love how the RPI is impacting your practice.
Ngā mihi,
Maria
Kia ora Lucy,
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that things resonated with you today. It can be hard to manage time and juggling all the things we need to fit in within a day. I was at some great PD on Monday and they suggested we cut down on the teaching 'fluff' and stick to what we are trying to teach as a way to make sure we get through the key stuff. I was struck by that idea. I hope the tracking examples have inspired you to think about the way to do this in your own class and I look forward to hearing all about the changes you have made.
Keep up the great learning and blogging,
:) Sharon - Te Ara Tūhura Education Programme Leader