Waimairi Visit
As part of our journey into Modern Learning we were all allocated a day to visit another school and gain inspiration. This was a hugely beneficial exercise and really helped to clarify and inspire where I want to go with my practice in the future. Teaching I would love to work collaboratively with a colleague in a team-teaching or shared teaching environment. I feel I need to do some more research around the different models of collaborative teaching as I saw a huge variety of different teaching combinations and styles on our visit. I am already working in a collaborative team for maths which is working really well as the children’s needs are being met more effectively than before. As a team we have talked about extending this teaching approach into reading as well to target specific needs and abilities. I am looking forward to doing this as it means I can focus my teaching on a specific need and really concentrating on helping those children make gains. Something that concer...