I haven't done a blog in a while and I haven't seen many uploaded so I presume everyone is super busy!
I have my official end of term assessment at the end of the week. No doubt this week is going to turn out to be very hectic and stressful.
In general I feel my teaching has been going quite well over the last few weeks. I am certainly improving in learning how to differentiate and even managing to give more verabl praise, something I had been criticised over previously.
I did however really struggle with my year 11 class last Friday. I think two factors were to blame. 1, I don't think I prepared thoroughly enough for the lesson and secondly I had let them start to get away with too much, for instance sit where they chose. This really affected the flow and effectiveness of the lesson.
Over the weekend I spent a far greater deal of time planning almost every minute bit of detail for my lesson. I also changed the seating plan around and placed them into groups of 4 all of whom are mixed ability. In today's lesson this seemed to make a great deal of difference. Students normally switching off appeared more engaging, possibly stimulated by their higher achieving peers. The behaviour was of a much more acceptable level also.
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