Feeling Successful

Watching my learners sharing their thinking with their Thinking Buddy is very rewarding and powerful. The support they get from each other is very rewarding for themselves and me.

LEARNING FROM COLLEAGUES

Today I visited Mat’s Goodwin’s classroom at Pt England School to observe his Maths lesson. I really enjoyed observing the interaction between teacher and students and students and students. There is peace and harmony in the classroom and it’s evident that class size matter. There were 20 learners in the space at the time. The  discussion and sharing of ideas among the groups and the whole class was fantastic. Mat was able to reached out to each learner.

I can see that Mat operated the learning space in  a systematic way and I really enjoyed it.

SPX CoL Staff Meeting

Had my CoL staff meeting at SPX - Monday 21 August. This has stirred great discussion as we reflected on our in school inquiry. The process of our in school inquiry reflect the CoL, however, differ in format.

All staff were receptive and have good understanding of the CoL challenges. We identify challenges that relate to us and teachers and school - 2, 3, 4, & 6.

We all had the opportunity to look and explore the CoL teachers blogs and have left some comments. SPX teachers comments.

LEARNING FROM COLLEAGUES

Today I visited Mat’s Goodwin’s classroom at Pt England School to observe his Maths lesson. I really enjoyed observing the interaction between teacher and students and students and students. There is peace and harmony in the classroom and it’s evident that class size matter. There were 20 learners in the space at the time. The  discussion and sharing of ideas among the groups and the whole class was fantastic. Mat was able to reached out to each learner.

I can see that Mat operated the learning space in  a systematic way and I really enjoyed it.

Visible thinking through talking

Week 4: Term 3

Visible thinking through talking.

Feeling so successful this week as I can see that my learners are developing/gaining cofidence to share through talking. Have been introducing Talk moves and speaking frames into our learning space especially in maths. I am seeing huge improvement in learners expressing their ideas.  Giving learners speaking frames is very powerful, especially second language learners

Reference :  Talk moves and Speaking Frames