RTC Reflections

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Term two begins...what will it bring?

After feeling like I had a pretty successful first term, I thought I would feel a lot more ready for this next one but it feels like I’m back at day one with very little idea of how its all suppose to work.  We have implemented an independent learning frame in our class.  SDL (Self directed learning) will fill our first block.
I’m feeling a bit out of my depth but am sure that it will all start flowing once I am a bit more familiar with the process. I will plan to observe Belinda run the SDL time on Thursday which will help hugely.  She has done it before so has more of an idea of what it should look like.  I’m glad that I am back and am looking forward to a great term, I’m just finding the change hard to adapt to after finally feeling like I had a grip on what I was doing last term. I know that SDL will benefit all of us in Room 14 once it is all running smoothly.  


Overwhelmed
There is so much going on already and I feel like I am struggling to keep up. There is talk of student led conferences coming up as well as whispers of reports.  It seems that at the moment there is a lot of confusion over what we need to do for each and even the teachers who have been here for some time seem overwhelmed with it all.  Not to take joy in others feeling that way, but I have to say that it did make me feel somewhat better. 

In the classroom I am struggling to monitor children's work. What is the best way to do it? Now that so much of our work is online it is imperative that we have systems in place to make sure we are actually seeing and checking the work that students are doing. Teacher dashboard is great for some things but in terms of knowing when a student has completed work, it’s not so efficient.

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