So my intention to write a review post about last year remained stubbornly undelivered as a new terms worth of stuff descended. I will almost certainly go back and reflect some more on last year, and do so in greater depth, but for now, a summary
I felt that my teaching needed a kick up the backside. It wasn’t developing in the way that I wanted, my lessons felt stale and increasingly distant from the kind of experiences I wanted to be providing my students
I spent one afternoon a fortnight from Jan – July 2012 helping out in a year 6 class of one of our feeder Primaries with the inspirational and generous Bron Jones. I also discovered project based learning and Bianca Hewes
I started back in Sept 2012 determined to reboot my teaching. In particular…
- I would head as far as I could towards project based learning, within the confines of time and what was required of me by the school and my departments
- As much as possible I would get out of the way and let my students learn and show their learning. Work would be more negotiated, with as much opportunity for student choice as I could find
Some things worked.
- Key Stage 3 projects in History, including presenting personal investigations and working towards building a series of museum exhibitions about life in particular period worked particularly well
- Online collaboration, especially using Google Docs provided an excellent vehicle for some of the work
- I found that my ‘normal’ lessons were becoming less driven by me, and I was trusting my students more
Some things didn’t work so well
- In particular some of the projects needed better planning and more relevant driving questions
- I think I let go too soon with my year 12 students and had to do some work to fill in the blanks they had been unable to fill themselves
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This year
We’re working towards offering a greater choice in year 7 ICT, hopefully trialling online badges as a way of accrediting student work
I’ve rebuilt my yr 12 course, with a longer immersion phase at the front, and some ‘flipped’ learning of the basics of each part as we go through
I hope to be able to deploy some of the projects as units of work across the department and encourage others to try out the approach
Hopefully I’ll be blogging as I go!