Teaching and Learning | Marlie Boyd
Term 4 Assessments
Please ensure you look at the ‘Quick View Calendar for assessments that need to be completed this term (They are in this yellow). You’ll notice the South Australian Spelling Test. Please check your assessments folders that I have you at the start of the year for these resources. Very important >PAT Assessments - please ensure you display the correct slowslide to your classroom - here is the link PAT Adminstration Slides
Classroom Placements
Teachers please look at what stage we are up to with classroom placements. Please ensure you follow the Working Partners WORD FOR WORD when explaining it in Week 2.
Class Groupings
IMPORTANT - please note I have moved the ‘F-6 - Reading, Writing & Numeracy Judgements’ into this end of Week 2 too. The reason for this is because I would like teams to have this information in, for Week 3 when we look at the classes.
Transition Days
Please note the changes to the time with the second transition, on the calendars.
Cognitive Load Check In: That time of year again. Reminder that we should be doing number 1 & 2. Number 3 will be a focus for more so next year.
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1.Classroom Environment - Attention to Cognitive Load Theory: - Desks in rows (where possible) - If rows are not possible, the class is configured so all children are facing the teaching focal point |
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2.Classroom Environment - Attention to Cognitive Load Theory: - Minimal display around the teaching focal point |
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3.Classroom Environment - Attention to Cognitive Load Theory: - Refine slide decks to reduce extraneous information |
IMPORTANT Reminders about whole school implementation of;
- Whole School Attention Grabbers Link
- 5 Ls is no longer and we have ‘Focused Listening’
- All classrooms to have lining up procedures, and for this to be printed near your classroom doors for specialists to see.
None of this information is new. The ‘why’ has been explained to us a number of times through the FLARE Professional Development, spoken about at team levels and then developed through the GC Meetings.