Made it through Skill Share!!
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: The daily grind
Phew!! Made it through skill share! It is a huge day to get through. One lesson 4 times with 4 groups of kids in 4 hours. The first two ok no real hassles really, lesson three starting to think man here we go again and then lesson 4 was kind of well one more time.

Sitting in the staffroom at lunchtime I felt wow I made it through the skill share sessions, I feel like an echo was going off in my head or something.

Well I got through the day ok and that was great but there are cetainly things that I could have done better. Need to be better at not talking over kids chatting, following through with my expectations. Realising that different kids will achieve different amounts of work and differing levels of success I think is really important. I think that this is really brought home in this type of situation where you are teaching 4 grades of children.

The fact that this is brought home is really important for me in developing my teaching in regard to my own future classes of children. To always be consious of that reality of a wide range of abilities within every classroom. Not just abilities but dedication, interest and motivation as well.

So next week for skill share I think I go in with similar expectations of what the kids will be able to achieve. I believe that the amount of work I am setting for the session is quite achievable and if the children do not muck around and stay on task: then there is no reason for them not to achieve success with the work.

Well there is my rave for another day and I am out of here
Richard