Visiting Prep T to see a sharing circle in a younger setting.

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 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 here so that the kids got used to doing their own 2 stars and a wish independently. Hitting 2 birds with 1 stone. 


Other ideas: 

Use the name tags to get the students to take photos of what they are doing that day. Independent activities to show me what they can do. I can save them into a folder online?

Ask T to show me how she saves and files them.

Her buckets are levelled so that some kids get differeentiated ideas as they work independently. Maybe I could use the rainbow system and they move up the rainbow. Coloured activities for diff groups? Something to think about.  



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