Learnings of a Teacher

Personal Lens: I always enjoy planning and teaching with people feeding off each other and adapting as you go . See peoples different mannerisms and how they react, builds my confidence as I learn from them and get reassurance that what I am doing is not to bad. Need to spend more time looking at talk moves and ambitious science web site. Constructive feedback, it can be so hard. I always feel uncomfortable in these situations. I am a feeling person and hate hurting people's feelings. At the some time people need to know and want to know what they need to work on.  If is a fine balance, at times I think I deal with this by joking. The feedback needs up being useless. Biggest point is,  make sure every party involved  knows what you are giving feedback on and that you have agreed. Purpose of feedback… What you would like to cover and why is it important.  Critiquing evidence - I see this all the time at my host scientists talking to each other, aski...

Some thoughts for consideration ·           You are clearly seeing the relationship between the Nature of Science and what scientists do.  I’m impressed with the range of activities you have been involved in and think that your mini project will give you some real experience of what it feels like, not just what it looks like.  The fact that this can be an authentic context for your students during phase 2 is an even bigger benefit!  I agree with your comment about the challenge to create a NoS focussed classroom during phase 2.  This has implications for taking your time when you return to try out stuff with your class  to try and put your thinking into action.  I always used to use a question based framework when I tried to operationalise your ideas – what will the students be doing, what will they be saying, what will the adults be doing and saying? What will the environment look like?  How will...

It has been the first time I have been introduced and looked at the capabilities in any detail. This has raised lots of questions for me around what the focus should be in science and how do we integrate everything into our programme. Planning shared lessons School visits / secondary teachers speaking about science Check lens links for more reflections. Reflections from workshop 1 through different lens

A Discourse Primer For Science Teachers, by Ambitious Science Teaching This reading made lots of connections to me about how I teach maths. Lots of the strategies I have used before in maths and I think that a lot of teachers could relate to these strategies stated in the reading. It made me think that sometimes when we teach things like science we get hung up on all the knowledge. This leads to teachers just trying to fill their students with all the knowledge they can. Where as all our students have a base of knowledge and it is a matter of using this and building on it by questioning, sharing, exploring and stimulating new thinking. I will be transferring these ideas and strategies into my science teaching. Five practices for orchestrating productive disciplinary discussion. -Anticipating students’ responses (being prepared for what might happen) -Monitoring student responses (watching and listening while they work and talk) -Purposefully selecting student responses for pub...

Was introduced to the Science Capabilities. This has really opened me up to why we should teach and how we teach science. What is important to cover in science? How do we deliver this? I am sure all the answer will come clear as I continue on this journey.