Know your learners -Have fun!
Hi Team HPS
This week, we go back over our routines, set up our systems and swing into first week back action. You are encouraged to focus on building student relationships. Are you up to date with their personal world? Try fun activities for different students, a sports game, a few morning jokes, a new video clip, sharing something personal from your holiday, a new game...bring the fun ...listen to your students......affirm them. This is what teachers at HPS excel, at you got this. Enjoy your learners.
This week, we go back over our routines, set up our systems and swing into first week back action. You are encouraged to focus on building student relationships. Are you up to date with their personal world? Try fun activities for different students, a sports game, a few morning jokes, a new video clip, sharing something personal from your holiday, a new game...bring the fun ...listen to your students......affirm them. This is what teachers at HPS excel, at you got this. Enjoy your learners.
Know your studentsJ
« Do they feel safe?
« Do they feel liked by you?
« Do they feel liked and accepted their peers?
« What are they good at?
« What can they do or what do they know already that you can leverage for new learning? What are their strengths and interests? What hook can you use to tackle new learning?
« What things are ‘fun’ for your students? Do you know what their favourite thing is?
« What do they know about learning? Do they know that we expect them to make mistakes? Mistakes don’t make you dumb, mistakes are a natural part of learning.
Look at your plan this week.
What are you doing to have fun with your kids, to purposefully build relationships, to laugh, to listen, to play.
Inquiry - Checking historical data. What worked what didnt... research new approaches and ways of delivering it to the students (or ourselves). Student inquiry is student driven learning..goal setting hot questions / solo / reflection / meta cognitive thinking..NZC threaded through inquiry topic. Constantly refined - ongoing
Love Team ClairE, Rob and Karle
Inquiry is about diving deeper into a topic, allowing students to fully understand all aspects of areas which they find interesting.
An inquiry into writing, with the view to improving a student's achievement in writing (from below to at - National Standards)
2 Inquiry is using data as a basis for an action to improve learning. Reassessing and reconsidering what other actions might be effective.
- Inquiry: Answering, discussing, researching and presenting ideas/information. Generally, inquiry in the classroom is students led - their wonderings.
Inquiry is answering, discussing, researching and presenting their ideas of questions they have asked. Student led.
Inquiry is the official and unofficial learning journeys we go on as educators - led by specific data and motivated by the desire to help our learners and improve our teaching.
The Spiral of Inquiry is the ongoing and ever circling nature of ongoing learning, improvement and development.