Ideas for Term Three

It’s only week 9? I am finding this term has gone incredibly slow. Term two has been interesting. Having taken over the ‘team leader’ role, I feel I have only caught up with everything that I had to do. I am lucky to get half a day a week release time but it does make my week feel very disjointed.

 Last week I spent most of the week assessing reading. This week it is writing and maths so I can complete all the reports due out in week 11. I find it interesting in the first 3 years of schooling we test more than we do in the last 2 years at primary. The crucial years where we want them to develop a love for learning we are constantly testing them over and over again (that no doubt will be another blog for the future).

This is the time where I start reflecting about term 3 and what I want to do. To be honest, I have no idea. My head is full of ideas but reality is I am not sure if any of them will work.

We have another new teacher joining us which means so far every term someone new has joined the school. This is great but does mean re thinking how we group individual students. I know what it is like joining a school half way through so I want the transition to be smooth and somewhat less daunting.

Ideas that are milling in my head are;

·         I want to get away from grouping in maths

·         I want to integrate reading, writing and topic into our morning block. Begin to take small groups rather than whole class teaching.

Problem there is we don’t all take our own homeroom students and whatever we planned would need to flow back into the afternoon without any issues.

·         I want everyone to team teach this term

Only two of us do this as their classroom is big enough to cater for this. Idea would be to do this for writing and maths as some of us are still in single cells.