Friday, 22 April 2016

Student Led Conferences

Had a great turn out of parents attending our SLC's. My students did a wonderful job sharing their learning journey with their parents. Here are the comments from parents to their kids!

My Reflection on SLC's: Definitely has has it's benefits.
If you are successful with scaffolding your students through their learning processes in each area, and children know what they are learning and why, this can be a much more powerful way of getting your children to build on their student agency.


Sunday, 10 April 2016

New Interactive Online Tool

Have been having a play around with a tool called Zaption, which you can upload a video clip from youtube and write questions/ or have live discussions on the content. It collects responses from the children and I like how you embed it into blogs. Here is my first attempt.


Positive Classroom Norms



Was given this as some professional reading from Honor to help with growth mindset and making children feel safe to share their ideas without the fear of being ridiculed if their thinking was off track. I love explaining to children that if a problem is challenging/ hard for them then they were the ones who were going to have their brains getting the most growth. I have a few chn who are not too confident to share within discussions, so will be using this resource as an aid for my teaching.