Whole School Booklook
On the first
day back this year, the whole staff spent time looking across a range of books.
As a teaching member of staff I found this session very enlightening. It became
clear to me that students are actively choosing to perform in certain subjects
– often due to passions and interests, but equally because they feel they can
get away with it.
The impact
this has had on my classroom practice is to encourage me to raise the bar. To
expect more.
The feedback
from staff has been fascinating. I have attached the anecdotal ‘post-it’ note
comments, and as you can see: we all want the same things. We want to see staff
actively challenging and expecting more from presentation; we want to see
supportive measures put into place to support spelling across the curriculum
and we want to continue to develop a more collaborative approach to teaching
and learning to make our students achieve better, whilst making our
professional lives less challenging.
For me, the
most interesting feedback from the session was differentiation. Firstly, we all
identified a need to differentiate more actively for the less able. However, we
also acknowledge that there seemed to be an over scaffolding for our able
students. We decided to challenge ourselves with this in the coming term. Combining
this session with the differentiation cards we received in the subsequent
session, I feel that this is going to have a good impact on the experience of
students in my class this term.
I would like
to thank staff for your contributions – I will keep you updated on how we move
forward in the coming weeks! Good luck; keep raising the standards and our
young people will come with us!
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