Standard 2

Professional learning Use inquiry, collaborative problem- solving and professional learning to improve professional capability to impact on the learning and achievement of all learners.	Inquire into and re ect on the e ectiveness of practice in an ongoing way, using evidence from a range of sources. Critically examine how my own assumptions and beliefs, including cultural beliefs, impact on practice and the achievement of learners with different abilities and needs, backgrounds, genders, identities, languages and cultures. Engage in professional learning and adaptively apply this learning in practice. Be informed by research and innovations related to: content disciplines; pedagogy; teaching for diverse learners, including learners with disabilities and learning support needs; and wider education matters. Seek and respond to feedback from learners, colleagues and other education professionals, and engage in collaborative problem solving and learning- focused collegial discussions.

2018 Team Inquiry
If we have a daily programme focussing on fine motor, gross motor and phonological awareness 4 days a week, to improve the underlying skills required for literacy development then we will see an improvement in literacy skills for our target learners.(desired outcome for our learners)

Feedback from Phonological Awareness observation of my practise by Lynne Keesing -RTLit

Hi Andrea

Thanks for letting me watch you take a lesson with your children focusing on rhyming.

It was so great to see all the children engaged & how well they responded to each of the activities.

Your lesson was a good mix of short multi-sensory activities, which is very important in keeping the children focused & interested.

Next steps for some of your more able students would be to use their existing knowledge & extend this by presenting a slightly more difficult task based on the same activity. For example, Alisdair & your new little girl were able to locate their partners immediately (& sat so patiently until it was their turn!), so maybe an extension for each of them after finding their rhyming partner could be to say you 2 or more words, that rhymed with their own & partners words.

I think sometimes we get so focused on supporting the less able students that we forget to present the others with a little more of a challenge!

I am also thrilled that you have found a few minutes to timetable phonological awareness into your busy day - thank you for being very willing & enthusiastic in trying out new ideas that are presented to you.

Kind regards

Lynne

Resource Teacher: Literacy

2015
I completed an Hour of Code
The game I created using block code:
R2D2's Piggy Challenge

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