Another interesting and informative day, today. As the session opened, we all shared our class site/timetables/reading planning with others in our small group. We often get so caught up in the day to day running of our classes that we don't get to have a look at how others are trying to cover everything in their weekly schedule. I'll keep coming back to this slide deck in future as there were so many great ideas to use.
Much of the SL part of today seemed like it would be over my head completely, given that I haven't done any structured literacy training yet. In the meantime I'm grateful for the introduction to the concepts and will wait to see how my school will implement SL PD at my level. On the other hand the "Great Beginnings" was fun to try and I will definitely roll an activity like that out in my class this next week. I enjoy running my reading into writing.
I've also really enjoyed going through Mr Wiseman's evolving taskboard design. Especially naming the reading groups after Fender guitars (well played sir!) which is encouraging to see others having fun with themselves and their planning.
