Teaching Portfolio

teaching the brain to read - right side of brain understands language, left side understands print. short term memory to mastery New Learning Fluency - need to have new information 4 times to get to fluency. Some children may need thousands of exposures to this learning. Maintenance - regular practice and reviewing information Application - can spell it correctly in your writing Mastery - can use the information to learn new things Working Memory - different to general memory - link to familar predictable chunking meaningful patterns - less than 7 numbers rhyme Children a struggling with working memory because they don't need to use it as much in 21st Century life Essential lists - no patterns so hard to learn in a spelling list. I am now going to change my spelling for the lower group to be patterns rather than words they 'need' to learn. Based on 'th' sound first. Sticky Note planning - oral language around what you are w...

This week we began our COP groups and started discussing our goals for the year. Through my self-appraisal I identified that I need to work on enabling students to understand why they are learning a particular concept not just what they are learning. I have combined this with the school-wide focus to create my current goal: As a result of explicit, focussed learning intentions 85% of my children will be at or above the standard in writing by 30 November 2016. I plan to do this through Attending Louise Dempsey PD and implementing appropriate ideas (criteria) Co-construct learning intentions Clear next steps written in children's books based around their goal Group based goals Tracking writing data and sharing findings with children to co-construct next steps Integrate learning intentions across the curriculum to generate authentic learning tasks Schedule feedback time (see every child once a fortnight) for children to reflect on goals and next steps - feed into new lear...