Mental Routine ✓ Clear on your routine this morning and students were quiet and - Can you reinforce what was taught in this engaged. lesson through your ✓ Consistent with your expectations and talking to specific students mental routine? about behaviour Lesson ✓ Explicit teaching of the groups is clear. Using the vocab ‘groups, multiplication, times.’ ✓ Calling students names to answer questions when they weren’t listening, great! Gets them focused again. ✓ Worksheet complemented yesterday's lesson where students had to make groups to match and today they had to write the equation to match the groups. ✓ Much better management of the class today, no lines of students and generally the behaviour was more focused. Reflection ✓ Reinforced the learning of groups and ‘x’ -
RWI - Book Study This is an extension Literacy
✓ Recapped the previous reading. group - how can you really be stretching students thinking ✓ Explicit instructions on the board and learning? ✓ Kept to times on your plan during reading. ✓ Students were on task during reading time ✓ Students' engagement with the book is great. They are very excited to be reading :) ❓ Adjectives task - how could this be extended? A lot of students finished quickly. What were they supposed to do when they finished? Students became off task here. ❓ Reflection of the task? How did this connect to their learning today?
Persuasive Some students look like they
✓ Straight away called students out for talking. could use some prompting ✓ Using a stern voice with students which is stopping them from with extending their sentences unnecessary behaviour. - e.g. ✓ Modelled the work using the vocab needed. ‘Dogs are better than cats because they play lots of ✓ Had the prompt of the burger (next time think about lines to reduce games- this could include a messiness). joining word to give additional ✓ Most students looked like they had a good understanding of this. reason. ‘Dogs are better than cats because they play games ❓ How did students go? What did you learn from their examples today such as fetch. Whereas cats - it’s hard in the afternoon with engagement but at least you got the only play with string when next step done! they are a kitten.’
HASS Students posed and
✓ Good discussion about technology from the past and present answered questions in the ✓ Students were engaged with the explicit teaching. computer room as part of their ✓ Modelled the activity on the board. HASS lesson - will this be marked as it is in the ✓ Students put objects from the past and present into a table - how Achievement Standard? could the activity be extended to show the more capable learners? ‘compare,’ ‘draw conclusions,’ is in the curriculum. Forward planning? ❓ Activity engagement - did all students finish? They had plenty of time!! Assessment of learning?