Students displayed a collaborative environment within our classroom space, showing how working as a TEAM can support their learning. All students had a voice and showed respect when their peers were sharing ideas. It was great to see the students were engaged in their learning and valued each other as a TEAM member.
A huge focus this year through our 'EffectiveTeaching Practice' is to develop further our understanding about 'Acceleration' and to apply best practices and strategies for this in our teaching and learning programmes. The main focus is to accelerate our students in writing. This lead me to my inquiry question 'How can I develop student agency to help accelerate learning?' Below shows my thinking to further research to get a better understanding of this. What is student agency? My thoughts - the student takes greater control, ownership and responsibility of their own learning. Students lead their own learning by directing their own learning pathway, setting their own goals, and making their own decisions instead of the teacher directing it.
Taking ideas from the 'Learning in the fast lane' I decided to do more in depth teaching and learning within our 'Speech Unit.' Firstly by taking my small target writing/reading group, I knew it was important to expose them to our 'Class Topic Headings' and splash ideas with sticky notes of what were some good speech topics. Eg: 'Community and Social Issues' we looked at certain things in our community of Waitara that pose as problems for us - straight away they were able to share lots of ideas such as 'Unemployment is it a problem?' 'Facebook, is it dangerous and what should we do to protect ourselves?' 'How can we look after our beach environment?' The next day I exposed the eight topic headings to the class. I divided the class evenly int eight groups - 3/4 per group and they went around to share their ideas under each heading. As I observed my group, it was great to see them all taking part and being more aware of e...
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