Hi,
Here we are in the last week of term and an exciting new layout and mission! For those of you who have the new missions - how is it going? Need any help? I have completed all of these in the past, so let me know if you need any tips.
For those of you who did not attend, the Mission envelopes are in my pigeon hole in the Staff Room (with a little Easter pressie for you all). Please take one as soon as possible - otherwise I will be naming and shaming!
A few other updates. You will see that I have updated this blog - bit more flashy! I have included a links area (please let me know if you want anymore!). I have also added your emails - I am hoping this will allow you to make posts. If not, I share my details with you so you can create them too. I am not precious about the site and want you to take ownership too!! Let me know your thought...
Good luck with M3.
I will sort the dates for next term's meetings asap and let you know!
Thanks
N
Hi Daredevils,
ReplyDeleteI did a mission with 8b4 Geography today. To teach about microclimates I always use the school site as an example, but in previous years we have just sat in the classroom discussing hot and cold parts of the school and coming up with reasons why. This year I booked out thermometers with the lovely Fran in science, and the students choose 3 hot and 3 cold areas of the school site, and then went and tested their theory by placing thermometers in their chosen sites (canteen, playground, room 16, room 20 etc). One student (not mentioning names!) was convinced the sand pit was hotter than the rest of the school site, so I let him put a thermometer there to test his theory. When the students went back to read the temperatures on their thermometers, him and a friend were missing for 15 mins... NRY kindly went to find them to find them sitting and playing in the sand pit!! Needless to say they both got detentions... However, apart from that the experiment was very effective and showed a temperature range of 19 degrees C around the school site - perfect for a microclimate study!
Alison
Hi, me again!
ReplyDeleteJust before the Easter hols I also tried getting 9a1 Geog students to design a 20 mins section of a lesson about volcanoes or earthquakes (from mission 1). It was very interesting. All the pairs did a starting slide with a title and L.O., then a starter, main activity and plenary. They all chose to use Powerpoint and a few did a worksheet too. Without being taught, they were all very good at producing a solid lesson planned out on a Powerpoint (although nothing very jazzy). The laptops are a brilliant resource for this activity.
From this activity I put out a sign up sheet for those interested in researching, planning and teaching some starters and plenaries in the next SOW, which I will use to choose students to do this in the next couple of months. Interestingly, it is not the students who I expected to sign up who did. I look forward to seeing students teach this half term...
Alison
Great stuff Alison! Let us know what happened!
ReplyDeleteN
Just to remind you of the Missions
ReplyDeleteMission 3: Learning Spaces
USH Dare Devils
Change the seating plan
• tables/no tables
• circle
• outside
• facing in/ facing out
Use a different space with at least one class
• Fixed/unfixed
• Outside
• Corridors
• Exhibition hall/ lecture theatre
No chairs for part/ all of a lesson
Use more than one room in a lesson
How many rooms/spaces can you use in a lesson?
Visit another building and teach there
Can you have a virtual lesson?
Use a large/ double classroom for a lesson
Speak to someone in your tutor team/ department and bring two classes together for at least one lesson
Break classes into different rooms for a lesson, using another staff member to support you (remember Nic and Taz!)
Carousel around classrooms with some fellow tutors/teachers
Consider how you could work with another member of staff to create Guided Learning areas, cut-away tables for extension tasks or generally move students around the room
Play musical chairs for peer assessment either in a mainstream classroom, an ICT room or outside
Create a starter or plenary which needs to be taught outside - using a ball or musical instruments for example.