Sally Avern's Professional Journey

 

 

 

Reading Module 1:   

I planned to be observed for a lesson and then I decided to have an assessment in that time instead, as the kids were ready.  The lesson I ended up doing for observation was a revision of how to show probability as a fraction and then also put that fraction on a single number line.  The students could already do it but they needed to be able to explain how they worked it out.  I decided the best way for my kids to do this as revision would be build me a SC to tell me what is happening in their brains.  For instance: the chance of rolling a number under 3 on a dice of 6 would be: 2/6.  Show me on whiteboards and then help me write the SC as a do some more.  My reflection of the lesson was: it was great the kids were familiar with the making the fraction but I should have given them some more vocab to talk about the numerator some more. We are great at denominator talk, but without this language, it makes it hard for them to say what the numerator is doing....

 Whole School Teams Transfer Our school is transferring from a one-drive, onenote, gdrive, combo, outlook,  (which is a bit messy) to a Teams one stop shop for all communication and collaborative work.  As I have done work on this before, I have joined the Digital Innovation Team and will be heading the transfer along with my other digital native colleagues. To assist with this process  we have created a slideshow to help navigate the transition.  I wil include the layout without the slideshow because I didn't make it on my own and I don't want to breach the trust of my colleagues.  Using Agency to increase engagement and differentiation in a digital classroom.   We talked about the benefits that link back to Dr. Helen Street and Kath Murdoch's research about increased motivation and belonging.  this wasn't something we had thought about until the day of presenting so it was nice to be able to so closely align with the key note speakers.  We ...