TEACHING AS INQUIRY
What? In Class Observation Notes Teacher: Donna Rudduck Date: 26th May 2017 Teaching as Inquiry Question: If I engage my Writing Focus group with a variety of sentence building tools, to what extent does it help them improve the quality of their sentences in their writing? Learning Area: Focus Areas (Please bold as appropriate): Sharing-confirming intended learning, purpose , criteria, feedback, self-assessment, peer assessment, questioning, general use of formative assessment strategies, WHAT? Group on the floor got the idea of subject / verb SO WHAT? Students need to know sentence structure for later in schooling. NOW WHAT? Get whole class to make sentences with individual cards to identify Need to do more explicit teaching - types of sentences Target group - write simple sentence / identify verb, subject, adverb Transfer into writing Work with class with didymo story - write a paragraph / work with those who need it in a g...