Descriptive Writing - Lemons

It has been a very rewarding experience to go through the full process of planning Writing Motivation, Teaching and scaffolding the students in their writing, right through to creating a publishing template, publishing the students work, having them illustrate their work and then displaying their writing in the classroom.

I have learnt a lot about how to implement writing into the classroom and recently attended professional development in this area which focused on ways to expand rather than limit the topic choice and interpretation of students.  Topic selection is important here to enable the students the freedom to choose their own style of writing and content which they can relate to.  This is where the genuine writing comes from.

Cross Curricula - Visual Arts

Came across this awesome art activity that would be neat to do with the class:  Citrus Stamping

Setting Professional Goals

Practicum Goals

1.      Engagement and Sustaining Attention for Learning:

Continue to observe and trial a variety of strategies for gaining attention and to build confidence in using these strategies.

Clapping Hands, Hands on Heads (to ensure nothing in their hands etc)

2.      Establishing a Teacher Presence – Discuss with Associate Teacher and other staff members, approaches and how to establish a ‘Teacher Presence’. 

Clarifying and building teacher identity.

Reflect on What am I like? / What am I doing?

Predominantly Verbal

Story Writing – Focus Goal in books / Verbal. 

Conversations on progress towards goals / creating new goals.

Learning Progressions – Scaffolding “My independence Pathway”.

3.      Further develop my knowledge and understanding of the curriculum, in particular Achievement Objectives and identifying relevant, specific Learning Intentions for each Achievement Objective.   These should be reflected in my planning.

Specific Goals for Mathematics Learning and Teaching.

1.       Strive to ensure that students understand – do not rush through materials and activities.  Offer help in a step-by-step approach.

 2.      Gain confidence by planning and teaching a mathematics unit of work – choosing appropriate Achievement Objectives, Learning Intentions and an appropriate and logical sequence of activities for students.

 3.      Gain experience in Assessment of students in mathematics.  To obtain templates for assessment and utilise these results to guide my planning.