Teaching Portfolio

MINDLAB REFLECTION TASK As a primary school teacher I teach all disciplines during my work day. Traditionally primary education looks at a ‘theme’ during ‘topic or inquiry’. For example we may teach about life cycles during our afternoon slot, read about life cycles in reading, write about life cycles in writing and carry out statistical investigations around life cycles. This model shows children how knowledge can be used in a variety of ways. ThomasMcDonaghGroup (2011) state interdisciplinary leads to innovation and new ideas. I have seen this first hand in the classroom where suddenly all the learning about a topic clicks and students start questioning and wondering how and why things are as they are. This model of teaching and learning is fantastic for children learning about their world however I feel strongly that it could produce fantastic results in a secondary school environment where young adults have more sophisticated thinking skills. I found the Ross Institute v...

14/03/17 - FOCUSING, DEVELOPING A HUNCH STAGES NOTES Self reflection   - Visible to all Edit  |  Delete - choose a smaller focus for each child, could just be engagement and enjoyment in maths - number knowledge??? Sit together and have critical discussions after scanning has been completed. Make decisions together about where to go next. Develop inquiry question for each child... how can ??? increase ??? for child A? This is how I teach maths.... In truth this is how my kids feel.... About surfacing assumptions. Shift focus onto us. How are we contributing as a school, system, resource, teacher. Only focus on things that we can change. By the end of these stages we should have a collaborative question for each child.