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Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Reflective thinking
How can increase reflective time in class?
How can I make reflection time beneficial for Year 2s and 3s?
1) I could allow time during guided writing lessons to teach students the meaning of reflections through discussions and modelling examples of reflections before writing their own. 2) I will aim to get every child writing one meaningful maths reflection in their books each week, before introducing it into their reading and writing books. 3) I will continue with our Friday afternoon sharing circles. But I will begin asking more probing questions to increase students reflective abilities. 4) Use questions like what are you most proud of? What are your strengths/weaknesses in this piece of work? How can you improve it for next time? Is there anything you achieved today/this week that surprised you and why? What can you do now that you couldn't do at the start of this unit? These questions will hopefully act as springboards to begin strengthening students reflective practice.
Well yesterday I used these new questions during our sharing circle and it worked really well. It was nice to hear students starting off I am proud...Comments ranged from being proud to reach the next stage in auditioning for the school jump jam team to being surprised that they are now learning how to do divided by in their maths problems. It was also nice to hear not just individual achievements but also students commenting on being proud at how well the class had worked staying nice and quiet while maths or reading groups were working with me.
Next step... I guess I could start typing some of these comments, which are made in our Friday sharing circle times, into the class blog as they verbalise their reflections. Modelling to students how they can then take that next step in writing these reflective thoughts.
1) I could allow time during guided writing lessons to teach students the meaning of reflections through discussions and modelling examples of reflections before writing their own.
ReplyDelete2) I will aim to get every child writing one meaningful maths reflection in their books each week, before introducing it into their reading and writing books.
3) I will continue with our Friday afternoon sharing circles. But I will begin asking more probing questions to increase students reflective abilities.
4) Use questions like what are you most proud of? What are your strengths/weaknesses in this piece of work? How can you improve it for next time? Is there anything you achieved today/this week that surprised you and why? What can you do now that you couldn't do at the start of this unit? These questions will hopefully act as springboards to begin strengthening students reflective practice.
Hi Danielle
ReplyDeleteYou have started with some very insightful questions! Well done!!
Well yesterday I used these new questions during our sharing circle and it worked really well. It was nice to hear students starting off I am proud...Comments ranged from being proud to reach the next stage in auditioning for the school jump jam team to being surprised that they are now learning how to do divided by in their maths problems. It was also nice to hear not just individual achievements but also students commenting on being proud at how well the class had worked staying nice and quiet while maths or reading groups were working with me.
ReplyDeleteNext step... I guess I could start typing some of these comments, which are made in our Friday sharing circle times, into the class blog as they verbalise their reflections. Modelling to students how they can then take that next step in writing these reflective thoughts.
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