SBL WK 5

25 - 26th March

Even though I've really enjoyed sbl, I would have to say that this week went off the hook.  I suppose your wondering why?  Im gonna tell you why...lol..... I was fortunate enough to work with a Yr 1 & Yr 6 class.  I undertook some observations around how they are best supported with their learning.

I had the privellage of interviewing two beautiful little souls.  Each were very unique in their own way.  These students minds are like machines, I mean they can process and retain soooo much information, and then the amazing thing is, they can explain what they have learnt.  Although I had interviewed these students at different times, the questions remained the same and their answers were kinda similar.

Questions I asked were as follows:

• What does learning mean to you?
• How do you know you've learnt something?
• What helps you learn?
• What do you like a about learning?

In response to the interviews, I feel that it is crucial that I incorporate a huge amount of interaction in my classroom which will engage and enhance the students learning.  I will also give the students an opportunity for thier feedback or opinion of what was taught in class or how they felt about what was being taught in class.  This is definately a valuable perspective because it enables me to adjust my teaching and know what my students need help with.

SBL - Wk 4

18th - 19th March

I made sure to give the expectations before we headed outside for my planned PE session.  I thought that my little team listened, understood and participated well.  I saw that they had progressed from last weeks lession and for me that was really cool to see.  We were given 30 mins to teach our lesson and I made sure to use the whole 30 minutes.  I guess the only downfall for me was, doing the lesson at the end of the day.  By then the students are tired, and over it.

Our learning with Miss X (MT), went well again.  We were introduced to  the key competencies and how these competencies word together in all situations of learning.

My kapa haka session went 50/50, I expect so much from the students..is this a bad thing? 

SBL -Wk3

10th - 11th March

This week at SBL I had the opportunity of being in a junior and senior room.  We had been asked to observe how teachers give instructions.  To be quite honest both teachers were very clear and informative with giving instructions and the students responded to this well.  I found that its a normal process to repeat instructions through out the lesson, whereas before I was of the thort that repeating myself over and over was looked down on.  OMG does that make sense?...lol

One thing I didn't do, but wish I did was giving my little team the 'rules' or the expectations of their behaviour and the skills I was going to teach before we went outside.  But from this experience, I will ensure to give the expectations before we head outside for our PE session.  Other than that, I was pleased with the PE session.  

I must mention that I really enjoy our learning with our MT, she is so full of knowledge and experience.  Its a privellage to be with her.  I actually consider myself lucky to have her as our MT.  I know her role is so demanding and hectic every other day, yet she still finds the time to educate us.

SBL - Wk 2

Week 2

I was fortunate enough to be with the year 1's this time round.  Room 15 is exactly how I want my class to be set up when I am qualified to do so.  Mrs X is amazingly organised and calm.  She had fun learning task for her students and they would rotate after a certain amount of time.  I particularly liked writing time.  Mrs X had the children sitting on the mat before going to their tables.  She then wrote a story  and engaged the children by helping her spell the words.  It was amazing to see their enthusiasm with their learning.

I experienced my first "BORING" moment this week.  The school have an accelerated writting programe.  What this involves is, 3 teacher aides come into the classroom and assist the students with their writting.  I sat and observed for a loooooong 20 minutes.  This killed me me because I wasn't interacting with the children. Another challenge was my PE lesson.  I had a goup of 6 students and the lesson was to learn how to catch.  I was in the mind frame of thinking that every child could catch, but I was so wrong. My learning point was to try and learn how to simplify skills for younger children.

SBL - Wk 1

REFLECTIONS


Everything about my sbl was enjoyable.  Our first point of contact with our MT was easy,  welcoming, approachable and organised.  She gave us an opportunity to introduce ourselves and share our reasons of why we want to become teachers.  We then had the opportunity to walk around the school and familiaries ourselves with its layout, and also met most of the staff. 

I really enjoyed partnering up with my class mate and going into different classrooms to read and interact with the students.  I had observed different teaching methods that were successful, the teachers stayed calm...always.  Teachers gave me the opportunity to take reading and writting groups which I thoroughly enjoyed.

I guess the negative point I can stress on is, I feel that we didn't have enough time with the students.  I wanted atleast 30 mins with every group .  As far as giving constructive criticsm towards the teachers and their teaching methods, I have none.  So far they are all wonderful!