Highlights of the day were as follows:
Reflecting back to what we had already covered and giving the learners the opportunity to look where they are and how they are tracking. Saying to them it's okay to be where you are at, and make your way up. It is perfectly okay to be in the pit but start thinking the changes you'll make, the help/support you need from your buddy/teacher to help you RISE UP again. I will be keen to sharing this again with my learners.
The idea of stocktake is great. The green shows what I am confident at doing. Yellow is what I am currently working on and Red is what I would like to implement in my timetable as this is what I am struggling at or have not thought about it until it was shared.
Doing this above activity where we had to pull out our plans and check to see if we are doing what we should be doing was very promising as it's already up in our plans every week.
Also the use of ARBs, JournalSurf is great as we build up on the resources, teacher notes and follow up activities for students which are meaningful and require them to go back to the text read to pull out evidences.
Spending quality time going over the apps was great as these are well structured/monitored and is a useful resource for independent activity. One thing I would like to implement in my timetable is making sure that I give feedback at appropriate times and not wait for long.
Currently my feedback is limited to when I am marking student work or when conferencing a group. Doing this, those who are doing independent work miss out on the relevant feedback as I don't have time, but when it is time tabled, there will be no excuse.
Another great day at the workshop. Looking forward to Day 6.
