So it’s my week A cluster of year7 classes.
Into control on all of them now. Had quite contrasting experiences in all of the classes.
Monday’s class, I slightly overestimated how much they knew/had picked up about flowol’s workings and so my instructions weren’t really clear enough for them…which gave me a little extra work to do afterwards, getting everyone up to speed! They were all working at roughly the same pace though, which made it fairly easy to manage.
Tuesday morning’s class is a lesson behind, so we were on the first lesson of the unit. There was quite a lot of variation in this class, although they didn’t struggle as much as the other classes had on this lesson.
Tuesday afternoon…I really enjoyed. I adjusted my explanations as a result of Monday afternoon, and a large part of the class were very enthusiastic and engaged. The feedback I got from the lesson was based on how much they were actually learning and being pushed along, as several of the flowol tasks were repetitions of previous tasks. With this particular set there is also one boy who is working below level 4 and without any LSA support, so really need to think about differentiation. This is all something i’ll need to consider when doing this lesson with the tuesday morning group next time…
Repeat lesson makes it so easy to be refkective on what went well …and what didn’t…especially with lower ability kids. I still find differentiation neds to be thought about carefully…even if there’s an LSA avaialable.
Isn;t it amazing how much they ‘forget’ over the holidays?
Getting near the final push now…so have a really good look through your standards making sure you have 3 ticks and pieces of eveidence for each. If not, talk with your mentor / school and see what you can do to get ‘em covered.
Hopefully S6 is nearing completion…and you’ll be thinking of what to do on FDP …