Professional Development - Jacque Allen
How much teaching time do you have left this year? We need a sense of urgency Looking at explicit teaching and time given to this for literacy. It is evident in a junior classroom that this is significantly higher than other year levels. This exercise was interesting to do to see how many hours of explicit teaching in literacy we have for the rest of this year. As a Aroha junior team it reaffirmed that we were giving enough time to explicit literacy teaching time for our learners. Feed-Up, Feed-Back & Feed-Forward As a Aroha team we identified that we could continue to develop agency with our students by introducing peer feedback. Some ideas for implementation included; using student learning coaches - where students would have to ask a nominated "super learner" to check that they had achieved the SC or completed their work to a 4 star level Thinking about using 4 star stamps for feedback, this ties in with the rubrics we use in class for students to check the standard ...