Three weeks down...

This week I had my first experience as the coach of the girls soccer team at a school tournament. What a fantastic experience. The girls and I were on such a high as the day was so much fun.  Coaching the team was a great way to meet other students in the school and also to be involved with something outside the classroom.

I think I found the soccer so refreshing because I had been struggling at school this week. We have student led conferences coming up in week four and yet I am still at this point unsure as to what exactly I need to prepare.  Thankfully I am in a job share and my co-teacher has done these before. She has been able to coach me through and get our class ready with what they needed. 

I am finding that things happen very quickly here.  There is no information or unclear information for a long time and then when the correct information finally reaches us we have very limited time to do said task.  It has challenged the way I do things because I like to know what is happening and be prepared well in advance. I have had to become more flexible in my thinking and in my doing.

Week Four

e-asTTle – Well, here is something else that is new.  Writing is one of the areas that I have only just started to focus my growth around.  In term one I spent majority of my time concentrating on setting up my numeracy and reading programmes.  This was a long process and although we were engaging in writing, I wasn’t doing much intentional or instructional teaching in terms of writing. This term I have shifted focus to writing. Intentional writing and intentional group teaching for special writing goals. This has been fantastic and I feel as though I have a much better grip on what I need to be doing in terms of writing.  However,  having changed my focus to writing has meant that the upkeep of my other groups, in reading and numeracy have slipped a little.  It is all still ticking along but I feel that I need to improve on keeping everything running well at the same time.  I know that this is a process and I will forever be learning new things and new ways of doing things so I am happy with my progress so far and understand that .