Last week our walkthrough focused on students setting goals. Our walk focused mainly on the middle school students. This focus followed up the curriculum day with Kath Murdoch.
In the classes we visited we saw some evidence of both personal and group goals. One class we saw was practising working quietly during a writing session with the sign to remind students and in the few junior classes we visited the students were holding social skills cards made after a group brainstorm to remind the students and the teacher what their personal goal was:e.g. to remain focused and to join in the discussion.
The other photo on cross referencing was taken in a middle school classroom and it reminded me of the broader definition of literacy. The students were collecting data on invertabrates and had to learn this skill. I don’t remember when I learnt this skill as a student but I’m sure it wasn’t when I was 9 years old.
