Wow another great day... the more learn the more I realise what I can do better. Less is best, focus on what you really want to teach so you can qucckly move on:; don't try to do too much. Always pause for reflection.
We need to give learners multiple encounters with the vocabulary and ideas, modelling our expectations and focussing on engagement and enjoyment.
I need to up my game in recording observations, for lower readers I can use Sunshines Classic, for more capable students I can use screencastify, or a voice recording. Whatever I do it needs to be focussed and productive. Loves the guidelines for year levels, I have never seen these before. So Year 3/4 once a week and 5/6 once a fortnight. I don't have my target students reading aloud for the recommended 20 minutes. I need to up my game in this area. Maybe this is why I don't see the improvements I want to see. They are involved in reading for this time but it is not alway aloud. Note to self programme this in!
In general groups my next steps are around questioning. I liked the way we engaged with the the modelling book and planning it is going to help me use these more efficiently and improve my planning as a result. The bettter the plan the better the result. One question that lingered in my mind was should I when doing the guided reading planning have a sheet for each group with multiple weeks (only 4 sheets) or a four groups on one sheet requiring ten sheets a term?
Then there are the non-negotiables that need to be on text reponses: learning intention, a connection to the text, questioning, a creative and sharing task. I am glad we have been given some exmplars. I need to make up a template so I can quickly access these and don't just hash one up. It takes too long!
