Sally Avern's Professional Journey

During term 1 I conferenced with the students and we identified our goals based on asttle and PAT testing.  We identified our strengths and weaknesses using a preprepared sheet based on the school progressions and the identified steps in the tests. Now that the students can identify their own next steps and tell me what they are I need to make it easier for them to choose lessons and activities that align with those steps. Fro maths I can quite easily help them to identify the number knowledge ideas they need from their student profile sheet.  This would need to be identified each week for them though. Or I could go through and write a list of what activities could help them for each sheet. It would take time, but it would be a useful resource for the year to come. Reading and writing I have sorted a sheet that they match with lesson- helping them to decide what session to sign up for.  The hard part is letting go of the process.  They can go through the proce...

This year I got to go to a google Apps for education summit. I learned quite a few things. A large portion of it wasn't new too, which I think just helped me to actually remember the things I did need to learn. Here is what I learned at the Summit:   HOT TIP: all pics are linked. DAY 1: Introductory chat Am I really giving my students opportunities to meet the Key Competencies? Are they receiving the tools and the explicit skills they need to learn them? Use design thinking to help them see where to go. Have I equipped my students to talk to each other? After the summit, I went back to school and decided that we don't need to put up our hands anymore. When in real life does that happen? So we have started the discussion technique 'Can I add to that?' Helping to equip my kids for the REAL WORLD. A-Z of lesser known Googley Tools This was epic the ones I love are, obvio...