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Monday 20 March 2017

Teachmeet 20/3/17

Confidence ratings

How do I know that the

Every picture tells a story

Turning everything we go into an image to help kids remember!
Think of small images that will help kids - 6/7 images on the board

The confident creative

Are you proud of what you've done?? Are you confident creative?

Shakespeare schools

Working with schools
Making language fun - try insulting each other using Shakespeare's words!!! Using the Insult Generator
Annual Festival

Reflection strips

Self regulation - what do you think about your work?
Reflection strips indicating 2 places in the text which need editing

Call and respond

Chant something that they have to respond to as a group!!

Green pen marking

Ask them to predict what you'll write - tell them what you'll be looking for first (success criteria)

Mind, Body, Focus

Singing / saying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Then replacing a number with a clap or a stomp

Pockets

Have pockets of differentiated work for students to go to throughout the lesson - CS tasks from Sarah?!

Revision clock

Using the clock template to break up a topic

Research runner

Get kids into groups - give them a colour - have a pack of coloured question cards - a new person in the group comes up each time so that they're all participating

Friday 17 March 2017

Portugal Exchange

Lessons

Lesson 1 - Portuguese with Emmanuel

Bags on hooks / over chairs
Lesson on acentos (accents)

In Portuguese 'is' is pronounced 'sh'

Lesson 2 - Science with Joao

Ciclo Do Oxigenio
No hands up - relaxed atmosphere
Mostly teacher talk with questions - students feels comfortable answering and sometimes 5 or 6 answer at the same time!
Lots of diagrams on the board to explain

Lesson 3 - History with Luis

Starter - video promoting the Algarve

Explanation of the word Algarve:

AL | GARVE

the | land

Al - all words starting with al are from Arabian heritage

Ideas for the exchange

Show previous Oscars films in The Wave - book early!
Find out what events are going on - Drama plays / PE events (Sports Day 6th July) - email to DOLs
Day trips: Fort Nelson / Gunwharf / fish and chips on Southsea beach (book minibus / take 1 car too) / chill out day (hot tub / BBQ) OR Winchester OR Lyndhurst

Wildern Oscars categories

Best promo/trailer
Best comedy OR Best short film
Best documentary
Best animation
Best broadcast (radio)
Best piece of music / soundtrack
Best artwork
Best photography
Best Primary School film
Best overall film
Outstanding Contribution to WBC

Thursday 16 March 2017

Teachmeet 20/3/17: Google Apps

Why use a Google App?

1. They are quick and easy to use as all Wildern accounts use Gmail and have apps such as Google Classrooms, Google Drive and YouTube in the apps bar already!

2. They are very useful for AfL. Using the 'Add class comment' in Google Classrooms, pupils are able to give instant responses to pose questions and discuss. This facilitates open discussion. You can also personalise feedback using the Insert comment button on a Google Document or a Google Slides presentation...

3. Not only can setting assignments in GC provide faster feedback, you can return work to students in GC with a comment - this forces them to make changes

4. Having a Google Classroom for a class allows students to quickly and easily access work for the lesson from in the classroom and at home (and no more excuses for homework, as it's all on there!). You can see who has handed in the work easily too..

5. On GC you can link your resources from various media - including your YouTube account and Google Drive files and folders. Did you know that if you open a file in your Google Drive and then hit 'Create assignment' in Google Classroom it will automatically find the recently opened files without you having to search for them?!

6. On GC you can create one resource and attach it to the 'class' so that every student has their own copy - I use this a lot to save worksheets being printed!

7. You can add more than one teacher to a Google Classroom class. This is great for when you are sharing a class with another teacher!

8. Google Keep allows you to convert images to text! Take a photo of a page in a textbook and upload it... Press 'More - Grab image text' and it converts the image into text! You can then share it to Google Docs and add it to Google Classroom of course :-)

9. Google Forms is a great app for creating your own surveys. You can also see your responses through pretty pie charts!

10. Google Calendar allows students to add events to certain times in the week - such as homework deadlines!

11. YouTube.. I use this to create playlists for students and then I add the playlists to Google Classroom for them to view. For instance, my year 9s are learning new graphics skills in ICT and I have linked my 'how to use Adobe Photoshop' playlist.

12. You can link your apps to other channels using IFTTT (If This Then That). IFTTT is a powerful service that allows you to connect channels such as Twitter, Blogger, Instagram and many more....

Wednesday 1 February 2017

LPM - Pixl

The Pixl headings:

Leadership

Organisation

Initiative

Resilience

Communication

Our attributes:

Determination

Pride

Reflection

Curiosity

Teamwork

To do:

Get in contact with another school that is using Pixl

Study skills:

Get students to understand and explore different ways of studying
LRC for a CS 'treasure hunt' perhaps?!

Tuesday 31 January 2017

High Achievers

More able = new disaffected?

For G&T resources:

http://londongt.org/

Success criteria:
Aspiration of staff and students --> having high aspirations / high expectations
Challenge, risk and failure - not offering the support too soon
Factor in the way the teenage brain works!
Lack insight --> "why are we doing this?!"

Quotes which put students off:
"You'll probably find this hard"
"Not many students get a grade 9"
"We're moving onto a difficult topic"

A reminder of the importance of pitch:
Too hard = panic zone
Too easy = illusion of success / boredom

Things to consider/do:
Model different 'ways to learn'
Showcase examplar work
Too long on the same topic - could we break up a series of lessons??
Finding new ways to recap 'old' content
When students call out an answer, do not just say if they are correct or not...

Invite other students to say if they agree or offer an alternative answer
Ask them to play around with the answer - is there another way to get to the answer?

Homework - do they see any value in it? Give it some meaning

Wednesday 5 October 2016

Coding websites for parents and students

www.microbit.co.uk - Website for the BBC micro:bit.

www.codecademy.com - Step by step tutorials in many languages such as Python, HTML, Java and more.

www.codecombat.com - Fun game teaching how to code with languages such as Python, JavaScript and more.

www.bestprogramminglanguagefor.me - Find out which language is best for you and your ambitions.

www.tynker.com - Fun projects using drag and drop block programming languages

www.code.org - Fun projects using drag and drop block programming languages

www.codekingdoms.com - Fun programming and computational thinking tutorials

www.khanacademy.org - Tutorials for programming languages and lots of other subjects!

www.codeclubprojects.org - Fun projects in Scratch, Python and HTML