Reflection

1. What are some objectives/activities I tried to teach today?

2. How did I try to teach it? (teaching strategy: modelled, shared, guided...)

3. How did it work? (student reaction/your reaction)

4. How could it be improved?

5. What are my teaching goals for tomorrow?

6. What are my planning/material needs for tomorrow?





Reflection
Wednesday 26TH July
INVESTIGATIONS

1. What are some objectives/activities I tried to teach today?
My teaching objective for this session was to focus on developing
students reflections at the end of Investigations.

2. How did I try to teach it? (teaching strategy: modelled, shared, guided...)
During this session I provided reflective prompts for students to help
with their thinking and sharing of ideas.

3. How did it work? (student reaction/your reaction)
Several focus students were able to make connections to other areas of
learning during their reflections using the reflective prompts. Stepping in
and using key questioning of students was supportive for the students
that struggled with independence. Setting up chairs at the start of the
class for focus students helped with the timing of the class and kept
students on task. Some non-focus students became restless after a period
of time.

4. How could it be improved?
Keep a note of students interests and learning needs to help them set
goals. I have resourced Play Matters by Kathy Walker to further develop
my understanding of the program. Get students in the audience to ask
questions first. Begin reflections by asking students about Whole Body
Listening to tune them in to the task. Stop and fix disruptive behaviour
immediately.

5. What are my teaching goals for tomorrow?
 During the next Investigations I would like to develop goal setting by
getting students to refer to the WALTs to help plan their ideas.

6. What are my planning/material needs for tomorrow?
Resource warm up games/circle time activity.


Reflection
Wednesday 26th July
Whole Class text

1. What are some objectives/activities I tried to teach today?
My teaching objective was to introduce students to a narrative and assess
students prior knowledge of the parts of a narrative: identifying setting,
characters, problem and solution.

2. How did I try to teach it? (teaching strategy: modelled, shared, guided...)
This activity was done as a whole class text with me reading to the class.
Reading strategies used: inferring, checking for understanding, decoding

3. How did it work? (student reaction/your reaction)
Students were engaged with the book with good retention. Students were
able to discuss the different parts of a narrative and give examples.
Behaviour was easily managed by stopping and waiting.

4. How could it be improved?
Keep an eye on timing to ensure that there is enough time to for reflection
and sharing of opinions.

5. What are my teaching goals for tomorrow?
Plan lessons with minutes to ensure that everything is covered.

6. What are my planning/material needs for tomorrow?
Prepare worksheets for narrative story sequencing