Welcome back everyone! In September’s blog post I ended at the formative assessment stage, where the teacher could determine if the student’s had hit the first part of the lesson objective, which was “Students will know the structure of recount texts and will be able to create their own recount…
Scaffolding (Part 1)
There’s a poem I really like by Irish poet Seamus Heaney called Scaffolding. While it’s quite good and I suggest you read it, teachers aren’t talking about its themes when they say that you should scaffold lessons 🙂 So what is scaffolding? Well, just like when constructing a building you…
Extra, Extra~
It’s July! For most of us, that probably means it’s break time… which means, in teacher-speak, that now is the time we can spend looking for cool lessons, prepping for said lessons, and reviewing the past semester for ways we can improve! Right? 🙂 Seriously, though, the summer and winter…