Heather

Day 1 I have learnt alot today about the tools. It is great to see how these tools can be used. I learnt about Visual Ranking and Seeing Reason. They are great to use. I will try to think about how I can use these in my classroom.



Day 2 Today we have done quite a lot of work on Content Questions, Unit Questions and Essential Questions. It is great to see how we can change our planning to include these types of questions. We have read and tried to understand a lot of different ways to frame questions. We have also included a lot of information regarding using the two tools we learnt on Day 1.



Day 3 Hey what a great day! We have learnt alot about how to use the Visual Ranking Tool in our Unit plan. It looks like alot of work but it seems that it will be very useful for our current unit on In My Garden. It was great to be able to see our tool in operation by others.

1. The most practical activity we completed today was using the information in our Unit plan to work on the Teacher's workspace in the Visual Ranking Tool. I now feel more comfortable when using this tool.

2. We can improve our planning to include 'richer' learning tasks by making sure that when we plan our units of work we incorporate higher order thinking tools, such as the Visual Ranking Tool as well as to think about the types of assessment we use and the students use to assess their work. When we include these details the learning will be richer and include different strategies, such as questioning, self-assessment etc. When our topics are only 5 weeks long, these details are quite hard to include.

3. For the next Intel session, can you please let our team know how we are going with our Unit plan? It would be great for you to let us know how much more needs to be included for our Unit plan to be complete. As far as being unclear, I bet I will forget how to use it but I will try to use it between now and the next session. Thanks Jodie!

Day 4 We have completed quite a lot of our plan today. We have worked well together today to put in plans, a rubric and other necessary information to help us to complete the unit of work. We will be working on completing the unit of work and sharing our work with the rest of the participants in Week 3 of this term.

Day 5 What a great session! We used a lot of useful tools for assessment. It was great sharing our work! Everyone has put in alot of work into their units.