The ipadagogy wheel I shared in an earlier post has made a big impact at school and, along with a visit to Cramlington Learning Village, has helped us to develop our new model of learning and teaching in the classroom.
Pupils are well on with their personalised projects on the history of the Romans. I've had to adapt the project a little and ironically it's become more personalised.
Pupils were working in small teams and contributing their own elements but this proved problematic on occasions because if a pupil was off ill or in a support lesson, their materials were not available. What I've had them do now is continue with their personal project and upload it to Showbie regularly and then I copy it into the shared folder for all the group members to access. Pupils had got used to emailing each other with bits of information but I've tried to encourage the use of the app in class. On the whole, work rate and productivity is good and certainly better than in their English lessons where I teach them for two hours and scheme and resources are prepared for me. I've set the pupils the task of meeting History assessment foci since last week and we're ticking off elements of the assessment sheets every time they meet a focus. I'll upload an example. These are just on paper but pupils have a photograph of this so they can see their own progress. I've organised a trip to Ribchester Roman Museum where they'll be able to show the curator their presentations and get some feedback from an expert. This unfortunately can't take place until the 10th February but that gives me enough time to polish off the presentations before going to Brussels. |