Tuesday 28th March 2017 Pre Observation Conversation

Pre-Observation Conversation

Individual Student Conference   Tuesday 28^th March

1.       Which students/group are you working with for this lesson?

I will be working with Robin who is my writing radar student.

2.       The learning goals/learning intention for the students during the observation will be:

Individual conference to promote further learning.   

For Robin to reread his writing to ensure it is making sense and the story is being developed. (Ideas)

For Robin to develop his writing further with a few more sentences using one of the sentence beginnings. 

- Why this learning for these students?

Robin’s writing goal is to write with different sentence starters. His writing will often start with “I” or “the” so we have been looking at different ways to start a sentence.  He has been introduced to AAAWWUBBIS and this is what he is now using to help him to improve his sentence beginnings.

3.How will we know that these students are learning what you are intending them to learn?  i.e., what is the success criteria?

Remember to:

Choose an AAAWWUBBIS word at the beginning of a sentence.

Although, after, as, while, when, until, because, before, if, since.

4. What will it look like when the students understand it?

Robin will have a piece of writing where he is able to identify the sentence beginnings he has used, specifically the AAAWWIBBUS words.

5. What is the professional goal you are focussing on during this observation?

Prompts I am using to promote further learning.

6. What will this look like in practice?

I will use a prompt.

Reminder Prompt:  Look to the sentence beginnings, specifically the AAAWWUBBIS words.  Do you think using this word has improved your sentence / overall writing?

Scaffold Prompt: Let’s not use the last sentence, but continue the story for a few more sentences, adding onto your ideas.

Example Prompt: making suggestions for which word could be used to further develop the story.  

7. How will you know you have been successful?

By having an awareness of the prompts I am using and using them judiciously to promote further learning.  

By evidence in Robin’s writing that the prompt has promoted further learning.