Well it is almost 12 months since I was here and once again I am going to make an effort to be more regular with my blog! This year I have driven a project at my current school and the process and results have been very rewarding. I am so proud of the willingness of the staff to come on this journey.
Two years ago I started introducing to the Kindy team the idea of teaching collaboratively as a way to support differentiation within the programme. We also explored cross-curriculum teaching and learning. Last year the Kindy team put the collegial discussion into practice. We started to explore collaborative teaching and cross curricular learning in the classroom.
The first concept based and cross-curriculum unit the team developed was a weather unit! Unfortunately it was derailed slightly by COVID. However, they did a great job and developed some wonderful resources. We are about to implement the weather unit again, it will interesting to reflect on the differences between in student understanding and the pedagogy between the two teachings of the unit. Since we started exploring collaborative teaching and cross-curriculum teaching we have visited two schools, one with an inquiry focus and one with collaborative teaching. Both these experiences have been of great value.
I am so happy to be part of a team that are willing to run with new ideas, give new ideas the time and effort that developing our practice as teachers always takes, being reflective and being open with their feedback.
Two years ago I started introducing to the Kindy team the idea of teaching collaboratively as a way to support differentiation within the programme. We also explored cross-curriculum teaching and learning. Last year the Kindy team put the collegial discussion into practice. We started to explore collaborative teaching and cross curricular learning in the classroom.
The first concept based and cross-curriculum unit the team developed was a weather unit! Unfortunately it was derailed slightly by COVID. However, they did a great job and developed some wonderful resources. We are about to implement the weather unit again, it will interesting to reflect on the differences between in student understanding and the pedagogy between the two teachings of the unit. Since we started exploring collaborative teaching and cross-curriculum teaching we have visited two schools, one with an inquiry focus and one with collaborative teaching. Both these experiences have been of great value.
I am so happy to be part of a team that are willing to run with new ideas, give new ideas the time and effort that developing our practice as teachers always takes, being reflective and being open with their feedback.
