As a team we have made a lot of changes and have made a lot of progress regarding our design for learning. We made a real shift towards creating purposeful agency so students can impact their learning. The use of deliberate scaffolding with clipboards and a organiser was crucial. Learning from watching Emma teach reading recovery ensured we do not lose sight of the importance of explicit teaching, in our case it was phonics and handwriting. The focus on finding out student's interests ensure they were engaged and this had a huge impact on them staying on task and completing them effectively with purpose (this was provided with a question).
The biggest concern was the complete lack of balance in my life. This has been by far the most challenging term in both teaching and leadership. It is incredibly hard to get the balance between teaching and leadership in the current Team Leader role. In fact, you can't. Without this flexibility, when the teaching becomes overwhelming, you can't control it as much as you want to without effecting the team and this leads to stress. This has lead me to rethink many things personally and professionally.
Mark Treadwell advises, we must focus on ourselves as much as the students. We must ensure mentors have a balance in life and our motivated to work. There are a few factors I can control and influence, and I will make attempt to make change to ensure I get balance as I will not be able to sustain my career at SPS.
Mark Treadwell advises, we must focus on ourselves as much as the students. We must ensure mentors have a balance in life and our motivated to work. There are a few factors I can control and influence, and I will make attempt to make change to ensure I get balance as I will not be able to sustain my career at SPS.
Agency/Capacities - Bingo, Clipboard and organiser
Explicit Teaching - observations with Emma
Engagement - based on inerests, questioning
Formative Assessment - Pebbles (awareness of goals?)
Balance - students and team (us), setting up a nightmare,
Relationships - WaRM preso came up often, important to us - can we design our learning to build on that (particulary with WAVE expectations (ie every two weeks - the thought of this terrifies me - something needs to be changed to make this doable and not a problem)
Oral Language - Inner Voice develop self awareness - MT
Use of Data - tracking reading (ensures our teaching is targeted)
Looking after the environment - more agency for students and nature of learning has made this a challenge - but giving students time to pack away etc is vital - we cannot do it ourselves
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