Communication is Key

This year I have set up a new blog for my class.  Again I have done it on weebly, however I have made a new address so that it aligns with the other weebly addresses at my new school.  A further reason that I have kept them separate is that I think it is lovely for students to be able to look back on and reflect on the learning that they did last year, and so I have left that one open for the students to access - which will be especially helpful for the students who are now in BYOD classrooms.

This year in addition to having the normal features of learning, sharing. go to etc I have included my planning on my weebly so that students and parents are able to access it from home.  The amount of positive feedback that I have received from parents regarding this already is astounding.  They have commented both directly to me and to the principal that having the planning their really opens up the conversations that they can have with their 11 or 12 years old about their learning.  In their words, they have gone from receiving a grunt/very minimal reply when asking about their child's day to having a proper conversation regarding the learning rather than the doing.  I have also shared google docs with the students that have all of their upcoming WALTS based on pre-assessment tasks and games/interactive websites that they know they are expected to look at before they see me for these WALTS.  This has been very successful as it is allowing the conversations to be focused on the learning of the day in depth rather than staying at the lower end of Blooms Taxonomy.

Below is the link to my new weebly:

Room 7 Weebly

Children beginning to share their learning

As the children now have a live blog audience with children from other schools commenting on their learning they are wishing to demonstrate the skills and knowledge that they have in a visual format.  Here is an example of their first try - feel free to pop to the weebly to see all of the comments and feedback and feedforward that they have left each other.

Strategies for maths

Linking my learning with that of my students

As a class we use weebly instead of Blogspot to record and share our learning.  As this is becoming a more and more interactive website that students are using to both learn and share their learning I believe it is important that this is recorded on my PRT blog and so have attached the link here - Sarah's Superheroes