Planning a Programme

 Thought I had this susssed... boy was I wrong!

I was smuggly thinking: yes, my site is going well, the students can navigate it, parents should be able to navigate it with their child's support.

So the first session class sites I thought, oh yeah there are some good examples on here, maybe mine could do with a bit of a polish.  There were some good pointers in Dorothy's segment.

Then there was the focus on our homework. It was fun looking at the various presentation of work for daily rotations and weekly plans. It will be interesting to take the time to complet the stocktake and run the yardstick over my efforts. 

This will be super helpful as teachers are the connection between the curriculum and their students. Timetabling is a critical element to ensure that the precious time we have is being used to the the best advantage. No more down time doing busy stuff, but making purposeful use of time while you are dragged off over playtime incidents.

Some good steers on digital apps that are puposeful but activity is tracked. All I need to do is make sure this is visible to me a nd my students are held accountable for their time. No more sneaking off into social conversations... or at least if you do you better have a plan to catch up in your own time! I still need a 'help' sesson on Sunshine's to make sure I can allocate work correctly. Would love some tutorial videos on this if any one is a 'whizz'.

Enjoyed the Read Like Writers and Write like Readers sessions. I have used something similar In my Writing site 'Writing from Go to Wow". But I can see how I can do this so much better. Really cool using 'real text' the kids are reading at the time.  

Last revelation that reading is not one text a week. It is all the multiple texts I can pull in. Yes it is a bit more time but I don't have to develop anxiety about choosing the perfect one to focus on for the week. I can use all three, or more! I can see how this approach will increase reading milage.

Pulling it all together still looks a bit daunting, but I will get there. A focus list of of points to consider will help me. I think focusing on one topic over all groups will help me. At least then I can use the same resources and just adapt them slightly depending on group ability. This is going to be more manageable than creating four individualised responses to text.  Wondering how long I focus on learning intentions- there seem to be a lot to get through and rolling them over regularly and then going back and revisiting seems to be the way to go. I also am reflecting that if I keep a similar learning intention over all the groups this will make it easier to create resources at three levels, opposed to four resources on different LI's.  Smarter not harder. 

I am certainly applying a lot more thought to my reading programme but it is a long way from perfect!