This week one of the main points that was in the lecture really struck home. The point was teach with a purpose not just for the sake of teaching. You teach the students basing their learning around things that they are interested in. This to me means that the students need to be able to find meaning in what they are learning because they are the ones who need to be engaged in the subject. This means you need to know what the students are interested and why.
I also learnt about a section of NAPLAN that I had not heard of before. The ICT section of NAPLAN which is undertaken in year 6 and year 10. They do not test all of the students though because students need individual computers to be able to participate. This to me seems a bit wrong because it means that the school can choose their best at ICT and it then makes the results stilted towards good rather than getting a proper general idea of where all the students are at. The whole school should be tested in my opinion however that is impossible with the dearth of computers in the public school systems that are available to students to use.
My group has finalised our speeches this week to find out that we were going in the wrong direction for the assignment. We have made an emergency meeting so we are able to modify the areas that do not fit into what the assignment is asking for. Our group has now decided to work on SOSE and will have our written parts completed (again) by next week. Working under this pressure is definitely proving hard to stay on top. Re reading the readings is getting to be tedious because all the readings seem to blur together. I believe when I am in the classroom I may get my students to write up a short blurb on each reading (if I set any) and that I will start doing that for my subjects now.
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