Our block course was fantastic and once again have come away with so many great ideas - surprisingly around special ed with the 'Success For All' resource front and centre. This is a great bank of knowledge for teachers with kids with special needs to access and give them tips for inclusion.
There was also a very good session on involving parents and ways to target reluctant families. All worthy of consideration and have been discussed with Brendon.
Doing Teacher Obs has been eye opening in a really great way and made me really focus in on what the teachers were doing. I tried to give full and constructive feedback with helpful hints or where to next statements.
My children feel a bit neglected at the moment as we have production on so time is getting sucked up very quickly. I am really focussing on my senior boys groups as they are the basis for my assignment due in a month and I need to get all my obs on them done and their take on measurement and misconceptions they may have. Once that's taken care of then its focus on the first part of term 4 to get all my kids really for testing mid November - not much time at all.
In the holidays the majority of the staff and I are heading to Auckland for U-Learn 15. I have focussed my programme around Modern Learning Environments, Student Agency, a little maths and ICT. My thinking was about wanting to keep up to speed with latest innovations and catch phrases in education as I miss out on staff PD due the part time nature of my job. Hopefully I have chosen well with a view to future classroom teaching and will record my thoughts once we get back form the holidays.
