Staff Meeting - Tuesday 28th August 2018 - Dust, Polish, Shine
How do we accelerate learning at Berkley?
Sunday, 9 September 2018
Literacy PD - Gail Loane
Leading Learning PD - Gail Loane - Wednesday 5th September 2018
Gail shared about a student that she has been working with recently and the journey that he has been on with his writing.
- Make connections
- What do they need?
- How do we help them to take the next step?
Ladder of Inference
Learning from your experience
- Stop using avoidance strategies such as blame, justification, denial and quitting
- Using 'I' Statements
- Notice the little moments - Call it as it happens - Deal with it
- This can be a good opportunity to share perspectives/clarify any misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
- This same strategy can be used with students - Gail mentioned about a school that has used this successfully.
How to facilitate Learning Conversations effectively with colleagues, student teachers, etc.
- Make connections
- What do they need?
- How do we help them to take the next step?
Ladder of Inference
Learning from your experience
- Stop using avoidance strategies such as blame, justification, denial and quitting
- Using 'I' Statements
- Notice the little moments - Call it as it happens - Deal with it
- This can be a good opportunity to share perspectives/clarify any misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
- This same strategy can be used with students - Gail mentioned about a school that has used this successfully.
How to facilitate Learning Conversations effectively with colleagues, student teachers, etc.
Monday, 3 September 2018
Monday, 30 October 2017
How to Start a LESSON with students
How to introduce a lesson to make allow students to discover the learning, rather than tell them the WALT and S:C
Very helpful and more engaging for our students - a problem solving approach that invites students to discover, imitate, ...
Remember to scaffold the process------ After one time it will still be fragile..... it takes time and practice for students to embed this earning..
Very helpful and more engaging for our students - a problem solving approach that invites students to discover, imitate, ...
Remember to scaffold the process------ After one time it will still be fragile..... it takes time and practice for students to embed this earning..
“Over the year we have been writing some memoir pieces and have used other memoirists to help us get better at it. Today we will be reading a memoir by Gavin Bishop and we will see what he can teach us about memoir writing. He uses some pretty interesting punctuation in here. We are going to find it, and work out why he chooses to use this particular punctuation in this particular text. How does it help the effectiveness of his writing? It might help us make decisions in our own writing – let’s see.”
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
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