Monday 22nd May 2017 Pre Observation Notes

Pre-Observation Conversation

Group Conference 2 students  Monday 22^nd May

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

I will be working with Jeremy and Jaehee. Jaehee is my radar student, however he has been away last week (has at least one absence a week) and so I have Jeremy in the group in case Jaehee can’t follow where we are up to!

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

Group conference to promote further learning.   

For Jeremy and Jaehee to select one of their journal entries each that they think best show the features of a journal entry as developed through class discussions. Share this and give each other feedback on the entry.

From Me: I’ve noticed something in both your work that isn’t part of the remember to, but I think it will really help your learning.  I think it’s important that we look at that as well.

For Jeremy and Jaehee to develop their ideas further with adding on to an idea – adding detail to give more information. This could be through using a range of sentence conjunctions to create compound sentences.  (only using and / because at the moment)

Why this learning for these students?

Both these students have the ideas to write however lack the detail to develop the ideas. So they find they haven’t written much, however by adding onto a sentence with an idea linked with a chosen conjunction they will find they can further develop an idea without having to write large amounts more.

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:

Use a Fanboys conjunction     for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

(http://www.smart-words.org/linking-words/conjunctions.html)

What will it look like when the students understand it?

Jeremy and Jaehee will be able to add detail to a basic idea through using a conjunction – compound sentence that is more than “and”  “because”

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

Prompts I am using to promote further learning.

What will this look like in practice?

Using prompts.   (www.evaluate.co.nz/downloads/files/PFL_part_2.ppt)

Reminder Prompt:  Look at the word you have used to link the ideas in this sentence. Is there a fanboys word we could use instead to make a more detailed sentence?

Scaffold Prompt: Try putting a different conjunction in this sentence instead of and …..

Example Prompt: making suggestions for which conjunction could be used to further develop the sentence.  

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 Jeremy and Jaehee’s writing that the prompts has promoted further learning.