Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Week 2 so far.

This week i've planned all of the maths lessons
We are doing:

  1. Ordinal Number
  2. Counting Coins
  3. Rounding numbers
  4. & a lesson of rotations of open ended questions based on what we have learnt this week.
(I only planned 4 lessons because of the athletics carnival on Tuesday).

My first lesson on ordinal number didn't go as well as i thought it would. 
I just assumed all the students would understand the concept quite quickly, but this wasn't the case at all. I'll never assume anything ever again. haha.

So my first maths lesson was a bit of a flop, but my second lesson on counting coins went a lot better. As i said to my students, 'a lot of you are going to be very rich one day' they were very engaged in the lesson and understood the concepts quite quickly.

I'm hoping my next two lessons are an improvement to my last two (especially the first).

I've also planned the literacy blocks in the morning. Quite basic. 10 minutes or silent reading, 10 minutes of paired reading and then either 20 minutes of handwriting or journal writing and then the rest of the morning focuses on narratives.

Friday, 19 July 2013

St Michaels has implemented a program called "The Leader in Me"which is based on Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
Their aim is to integrate the 7 Habits philosophy into everything they do at St Michael’s so this weekend i'm trying to familiarise myself with the habits so i can incorporate it into my own management philosophy for when i start to teach next week.

The 7 habits are:

  1. Be proactive
  2. Begin with the end in mind
  3. Put first things first
  4. Think win-win
  5. Seek first to understand then to be understood
  6. Synergize 
  7. Sharpen the saw
I think it's going to be hard to use the above terminology when talking to the students, i guess i'm just going to have to put first things first with the end in mind as a seek to understand then to be understood... haha.

I did however build this tree this past week so we can hang our 7 habits from the habit tree.





Week one. Done and dusted!

Week one was a lot of fun.
I've been placed on a year 1 class and they're all so sweet.

This week was my observation week.
I did a lot of making, some group work and i read a couple of stories to the class.

I have planned a unit of work for HSIE on Transport and i'm very excited to start teaching it.

My only concern is that during HSIE lessons and Science and Technology lessons, year 1 and year 2 get together in the one classroom and learn the same thing.

So i'm going to have 55 students for some of my classes. 
Differentiation is a big concern for me.
I don't want to make it too easy and then as a result some children get bored, or i don't want to make it to hard and have some students get lost in the content.

I gave my unit of work to my supervising teacher, and she said that it's great, but i'm still feeling a little uneasy about it/ a little scared about teaching 55 students (classroom management wise).