Within our TLC, after reading sections and discussing our finding in meeting at G & D's yesterday, we have decided to focus on Task Design. My observations on this theme from today can be found at Amy - 20121002 - Task Design Observation.
The following period was with my mentor who gave us lots of interesting information and showed us where to find education needs information for the classes we will be teaching.
Fourth period was spent with a Year 11 class, looking at vectors. They began by doing an exercise in the worksheet (sadly the teacher had almost no voice so was unable to do much interactive teaching.) When the teacher went up to explain an exam question, one of the pupils shouted out
"Sir, why don't you let Miss teach so you can rest your voice?"So rather than pansying out, I decided to accept the challenge and after a kind student showed me how to use the interactive whiteboard we were away. Not my finest performance as it was completely unplanned (note to self: don't ever intentionally try and "wing-it") but we got through it and overhearing a few
"Oh, I get it now!"was rather rewarding!
We conducted some of the Decimal Interviews with a Year 8 class this afternoon with some higher ability pupils, which still threw up some interesting misconceptions! Our preliminary notes are here.
A brief chat with the PE department at the end of the day enabled us to plan for tomorrow - netball club after school! :-)
