Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Staff Meeting - Gail Loane - Wednesday 22nd March 2017

Starting point
- Context
- Curriculum
- Student Needs (Whole class, Group, Individual)

Where are they now and what do I need to teach next?

Ensure that the children understand their goals and that they are not too abstract.

When Writing:
- Forming intentions (Often we do this for students but do we need to?)
- Finding what you want to say
- Saying it
- Checking


  • Build up ideas for writing in Writer's Notebook - Help students with their topic selection for independent writing.
  • Think as a writer.
  • Students need to write often in order to improve.
  • What do I have to do to take these students on and to help them to be independent writers? How can I help these learners to feel good about writing now?
  • Useful for the student to see the teacher using writing territories.
  • What do we know about ______?? What more can we add to our knowledge?
  • The Storm - Activated nouns
  • The forks...  - Rather than - I saw the forks in the trees...
  • Get inside the sentence!
  • Use of a modelling book for writing that can be reviewed - This can promote student agency - Writing draft books are a form of record that can be revisited.
  • Sometimes you have to take longer to go deeper.


- Check in at every stage
- The importance of story in teaching - Book - Anecdotes/storytelling are so important in teaching. Any thing can be talked about.



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