For my schools Teacher's Only Day we attended Kath Murdoch. She shared ideas about how to lead children through a successful inquiry. It was great day of being challenged and inspired. One idea that stood out to our school was how valuable it is for the children to have a 'tool box' of thinking strategies. I have taken some time over these school holidays to reflect and think about how I can develop the children's 'tool box'. In the classroom I will display a 'tool box' sign and as we try a strategy I will add a picture and word prompt that matches the tool under our tool box. The first tool is; See, Think, Wonder. We will use this to explore kiwiana pictures and how they relate to our culture.
Another thing I want to try is her idea about goal setting. I always struggle with managing to keep the children's individual goals up to date. Kath's idea was to display a set of goals on the wall. Mine will be about our school learner profile characteristics. These will be displayed with a bullet point criteria developed with the children. The children will place their name beside a goal they need to work on for the week. During the week we will discuss and reflect on how they are managing to meet that goal.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Kath Murdoch Day
6:49 PM
Evelyn Aurik
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This week we used the tool 'see, think, wonder' as my year one and two class looked at pictures of Kiwiana. I didn't share the learning intention (we are learning what Kiwiana is and why it is special to us) or that the pictures had a common theme. On reflection I think the children's thoughts would have been more focused and perhaps challenged as they tried to link the pictures to the learning intention.
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