Evaluation & Sustainability - Term 2 2018

How will you sustain the habits that are promoting success
for your students in Term 2?

Sentence Frame - Continue to use this twice a week. I believe that
maybe twice a week is enough because my students need to
have an opportunity to create their own story using their own words.
This is going to be interesting, but I would like to give them an
opportunity to take risks as well.

Phonemic Awareness - I love this strategy. My students love this, too.
Children's writing show that they love writing because they are able
to write down something for their ideas. Clapping of hands is a very
good tool to use especially for the little ones - its interacting and fun.

Cut-Up Sentence - For all my new entrants, this is how I teach them
how to write a sentence. It teaches them the directionality, the punctuation,
the capital letters, holding an idea in the head for a while before recording,
and other things. I feel like that I don't need to teach those goals individually
because it is covered by cut-up sentence.

Rub Off Dictation - Helps chn to hold information in their head for
a while before recording it down. I do this every day and it will continue
just like that in Term 3.

What did you learn as a teacher / what surprised you? (Term 2)

I knew that TESSOL strategies help but doing/using them in class
really made me see how chn enjoy having fun in their learning. All
of the above strategies have contributed a lot to chn's great
improvement in their writing.

How will you transfer your new learning to other students
/ curriculum areas? (in Term 3)

I use Sentence-Frame in Maths - it helps chn in learning new language
in Maths.
eg. Sione is taller than .....

Clapping to hear dominant sounds in an unknown word helps chn to
be confident in their own writing.