Angela

Day 1: The visual ranking tool activity was interesting and I can see ways that I could incorporate this into my classroom Setting up wikispace was great! --time saver great way of developing a list of resources Sharing ideas with others helped to clarify my understanding I really liked the expert jigsaw activity and would be able to adapt this idea with my grade Useful to start thinking about my own teaching and learning taxonomy, quite difficult at first, but I have made a start Looking forward to the next session!

A very challenging but worthwhile day... alot to think about. Looking at different forms of questions was really useful. Will need to change the way we frame our questions for our topics. I think I understand the different types of questioning better now. Will be great to include open ended questions into our planners. We have tried to make our questions much broader, open ended and meaningful. The types of questions asked will encourage and involve children in higher order thinking such as: investigating, solving problems, making conclusions, formulating arguments and presenting their learning in a meaningful way

Day 3: What was the most practical activity? Another challenging, but interseting day. I liked looking at the different forms of assessment. I thought the visual ranking tool activity was great and very practical.I feel more confident about using it now and I can really see the value of this activity for children and perhaps also using it as a form of assessment. I liked setting up the teacher account too!

How can we improve our planning to include richer learning tasks? I think firstly we would need to extend the duration of our units of work, so that our topics are more involved.We need to include more higher order thinking skills into our planning.

It would be great if you could have a look at our unit plan and maybe give some feedback after we have worked on it more and made some changes though. Thanks heaps for today!