Visioning Call Back Day

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Pathway
Can we have a pathway for each curriculum area? Example of what we are aiming for at the top, stages/walts/goals up the side
How are we making this meaningful for the kids? Move away from using it for behaviour
Effective learner
Kids need more ownership
Feel I have gone back in this area from last year. Needs to be a period of 'training' but feel we should be there now
Need to do a lot more talking to kids about this. How can we give kids more ownership? I am keen to return to can dos must dos to give kids more ownership of their learning. How can we then build this into how why where we learn.
Reflection on child ownership
I want to get kids loving learning and coming to school again, last term was messy for many reasons and I feel I have definitely slipped back into the 'old' way of teaching which I'm not enjoying and neither are the kids. I want to bring the energy back into learning, relax the routines and heighten the expectations for driving our own learning. I feel the kids in rm 22 are able to manage their own learning and have some choice over how they show their learning (SMARTS etc) but a lot of them haven't really built that motivation to really enjoy and own their learning.

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