This morning for PLG we were able to look at the teacher habits of mind: Open-mindedness, Critical Reflection, Persistence On-going learning and Caring. We used these as a basis with a critical friend to look at our inquiry, and use of student voice.
So this Log is a combination of my thoughts from this.
Student Voice & My Inquiry:
I am starting a new iteration of my inquiry this week – so with that will come lots of student voice. I want to tap into the style of teaching I used with my year 10s for my novel study, and approach the visual text study in the same way. As such I will need to look again at how they learn best, what they know, and how to enhance their learning. I am making assumptions again – I assume that they will still learn best though the use of discussion, so I will am already brainstorming some ways that I can use discussion. I am hoping to combine this with a strategy that I learnt last week, to use popplet in order to make this happen!
Year 13 Student Voice:
I have just set myself up with all my senior classes to do a big student voice reflection on how the year has gone and what they feel they need to do more work on. This is particularly important as we start to prepare for the exams. I will probably use google forms for this. As it gives me easy to access information. My other obvious option would be to use pen and paper, but I always struggle to collate this information in a meaningful way.
Year 11 Student Voice
My year 11s are far less reflective, and have had fewer opportunities this year to offer me their student voice. This is something I would like to correct. Particularly as they are a lower ability class, their student voice would be helpful to remind me how they learn best. Again with them we are starting to prep for exams, so student voice on how to best do that I am sure will help me!
Teacher Habits of Mind:
I like it when we work with these, as it helps me to focus in on what I think I do well and what I don’t do well. This year I think I have nailed the critical-reflection habit. I use evidence about teaching and learning, but also evaluate it’s quality. I think, particularly with my year 10s I have shown an awareness of what works in one situation does not work in another!
And just like that… it’s time to go and teach!
Mrs K