Learnings of a Teacher

Lesson study - Teach a small group on developing capability 1 gathering and interrupting, video the teaching. After teaching watch lesson again and fill in reflection sheet. Focus on different aspects of talk moves.

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...

Shared at staff meeting about my STLP journey so far.

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