Sally Avern's Professional Journey

 This sharing circle was incredibly effective, the students were engaged, the lesson was focused on effective feedback for the 'focus students' for that day.  After writing, students sat in a whole class circle and one at a time (5 students only) read their work to the group. The student explained where they thought they were and why the rest of the class could agree or disagree, including reasoning about where they fit and feedback about what they could add.  The writing wall/learning wall/bump it up wall was heavily used in this lesson. Teh students then could go straight away and add what they needed, They had time RIGHT AWAY to edit their writing.  Each day is a different group of focus kids so they each get effective feedback 1x a week.  Which is the hard part- how do I give effective feedback to every kid for writing- this is how!  Question: how does this work for my low kids that will have a panic attack when it is their time? We could use the 2 star and a wish technique

 The Literacy Continuum is obviously going to be helpful for me to use to work out where to go next for lots of my students- Especially in a curriculum that I am not very familiar with.  It also shows how to use the early start information (which we didn't do this year due to COVID, but will in the future) to plan on the continuum.         EARLY START --> CONTINUUM --> GOALS      " There are many supporting videos and powerpoints that will further support your understanding of Early Start and the Literacy continuum. There is a brand new video on using the literacy continuum to develop literacy goals. Early Start data is entered straight into OneSchool through the curriculum tab."   (Margaret Martin-Saunders, 2020) Next Steps: Find and watch the Goals set from continuum video.  Find the resources suggested in the learning areas to help with activity types.