Big Step 1 - Writing

Had a great meeting with Muireann this week and we broke down my first goal;

Go on a "Personal Writing Inquiry" I need to learn how to help my learners.

This is a huge goal and so to make sure I am progressing I need to break this into smaller, more manageable goals.

Looking back over this term (term 1, 2016) I have been focusing on ideas - making sure the children have something to write about. Starting each lesson with the mentors modelling the drawing of their ideas means that it is now automatic for the children. As we write over several days this drawing of ideas has become really important as it is a reference point for the children to go back to to continue writing.

Moving on, and building on this, I now want to focus on feedback - making sure it is accurate and timely. Next term will be a different set up for writing, and as we get more children it will become harder to see each child in every writing session so the reviewing of books and the feedforward to them will become key in making sure they progress.


Having broken this big step into smaller, baby ones, I now need to go and do the same for my other goals.