- New Year level
- New institution
- New School
- New Teaching philosophy
Its a lot of changes but so exciting. my big problem at them moment. Changing my teaching ideas and practices to fit the truely digital environment that I am working in.
The problem. The kids are too bloody engaged! They all want to take their work home, work for 5 hours straight and finish it that night. It may be a simple as a basic reading follow up activity like what I gave my kids today. I explained to them the follow up today so they could do it tomorrow (something that I have always done). Now (4:30) i'm getting emails of the kids finished work. What am I going to do with them tomorrow when I want to read with the other group?
The digital environment is definitely engaging the children. The problem for me now is changing my practice away from the largely teacher centered program (a traditional kiwi classroom) into a much more student centered program. This change I feel is the only option in a program where the children can and will work in their own time at home.
Hi Sam.
ReplyDeleteI bet your head's spinning from the changes. My suggestion is to get them all blogging / efolios etc. I wonder how you can get them to start exploring things / writing for themselves without having to channel through you first? I haven't come across anything 'teacher practice' wise that's better than student controlled blogs to achieve this.
Get them posting / commenting with some scaffolding and boundaries and you're away! I wrote this post http://markherring.blogspot.com/2009/10/inquiry-classrooms-like-airport-part.html about seeing your classroom like an airport. You could get them doing P.I s,(personal investigations) too - within classroom time. Terri at Riverdale is the expert there!.
Great reflection - and what a teacher's dream problem to have. Watching how things go with interest. It's started me thinking...
hi mr sloan,
ReplyDeleteits paige morgan from last year, please write some things on the room8 blog because we all miss your awesome blog.