On friday I will be having my last observation with my visiting tutor with a top set Year 8 group. I am doing control using a program called Scratch. It not only is useful for control but is an ideal way to introduce programming concepts such as conditional statements(when, if), loops and variables. It is [...]
Archive for June 2008
Nearly there
June 17, 2008Best Lesson
June 11, 2008Year 7 group; taught my best lesson to date. I had broken it down in to chunks so that I demo’d q&A followed by pupil tasks. This worked well as there were no behavioural issues. It also enabled me to monitor and assess pupils progress. This is the standard I should now take forward to [...]
Assessment
June 4, 2008Why am I finding it so difficult to do in class assessment?
Departmental Meeting
June 3, 2008Today we had an emergency departmental meeting to discuss current position of Year 9+10 on their GCSEs. After some analysis by the head of dept it showed that the majority of students had either not done the work or not had it assessed the compulsory units that they need to complete to get any gcses. [...]
Fire Alarms
June 3, 2008The 4th fire alarm since I arrived went off today. All have gone off when I have not been teaching which is a blessing. The latest one was actually a real incident. Someone had stuffed paper in to one of the heaters and it had caught fire. Fortunately the weather was good as we were [...]
